The Path From Behavioral Health Carve-Out To Integration

This presentation was delivered by MaryAnne Lindeblad, State Medicaid Director, Washington State Health Care Authority, on August 24, 2020 at The 2020 OPEN MINDS Management Best Practices Institute. In the presentation, Ms. Lindeblad discussed Washington State’s conversion from a nine-region system with county-centered behavioral health care authorities to a system in which managed care organizations in each region integrate physical and behavioral health for all Medicaid consumers . . .