Behavioral Health Integration Evolves

Interest in integrating behavioral health services within the larger health care sphere continues to grow.;The push for integration started with the passage of the Affordable Care Act—with parity the elimination of pre-existing condition exclusions and annual/lifetime benefit limitations. Integration is also considered a partial solution to the behavioral health access to care issues.;Despite the high prevalence of behavioral health disorders in the United States, less than half of the 59 million Americans experiencing mental illness in 2020 received any treatment.

The challenge is that there is no standard model for that integration at . . .