Healthier Washington Fact Sheet: Behavioral Health Administrative Service Organizations

This fact sheet was released in December 2017, by the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA). It describes an HCA initiative to end the state's Medicaid behavioral health carve-out by January 2020. All regions of the state will transition to an integrated system for physical health, mental health, and addiction disorder services in the Washington Apple Health (Medicaid) program. An Integrated Managed Care entity will provide both physical and behavioral health services to Medicaid beneficiaries. Other public behavioral health services will be administered by a regional behavioral health administrative services organization (BH-ASO . . .