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The Practice Assessment Tool (PAT) is a self-assesment tool that helps providers assess and evaluate progress towards and readiness for value-based service delivery, by benchmarking progress along CMS’s five “phases of transformation.” Originally designed for primary care providers, the National Council for Mental Wellbeing developed the Behavioral Health PAT, which…

In the spring of 2019, the National Council for Mental Wellbeing partnered with the Center for Health Care Strategies to conduct an environmental scan of value-based payment models for behavioral health services. The culminating report, Behavioral Health Provider Participation in Medicaid Value-based Payment Models: An Environmental Scan and Policy Considerations,…

Nationally, there is more demand for mental health and substance use treatment than workforce capacity to deliver services. Payment, clinical and regulatory models underlie what has become a national behavioral health workforce crisis. Health Management Associates (HMA) and the National Council for Mental Wellbeing prepared a series of three issue…

A paper proposing that patient-centered medical home model be expanded to incorporate the lessons of the IMPACT model, explicitly building into the medical home model the care manager/ behavioral health consultant and consulting psychiatrist functions that have proven effective in the IMPACT model.

This paper presents evidence-based approaches to the creation of person-centered healthcare homes and the development of partnerships between behavioral health providers and primary care to meet the whole health needs of people with serious mental illnesses.