So Much For Integration…
OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Editorial Well, the numbers are in - and what they say is "so long" to the vision of integration of behavioral health services with physical health. In fact, what the numbers tell us is that payers prefer to 'carve out' behavioral health services and are doing so more and more. What we see is that enrollment in specialty managed behavioral health programs continues to grow and that the number of state governments opting for carve-out model managed behavioral health programs is on the rise. In addition, it appears that the . . .