Website Search Results for: behavioral health workforce
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Date: May 2023
Recording of a May 2023 webinar discussing behavioral health and primary care integration in rural areas. Explores the importance of integration in rural areas, the barriers to integration, and opportunities for policies that can improve access to care. Features opening remarks from Tom Morris, Associate Administrator for Rural Health Policy at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and a panel of providers from Missouri, New Hampshire, and Texas. Transcript available in the video description.
...Behavioral health workforce · Healthcare business and finance · Integrated service delivery · Policy · Primary care · Service delivery...
Date: May 2023
Provides an overview of behavioral health and primary care integration and how integration may be different in rural areas than in urban and suburban areas. Examines the barriers to integration in rural areas and opportunities for policies that can improve access to care. Offers policy recommendations to better coordinate and integrate primary care and behavioral health services for high-risk groups and expand the ability of primary care providers to handle the lower-acuity behavioral health needs of patients through enhanced payments, training, and improved access to behavioral health providers for consultation and referral. Builds on the March 2021 report, Tackling America's Mental Health and Addiction Crisis Through Primary Care Integration.
...Behavioral health workforce · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Health workforce education and training · Health workforce supply...
Date: Mar 2021
Explores how primary and behavioral healthcare integration can overcome the unmet needs for mental health and substance use services. Discusses barriers to integrated care delivery. Offers policy recommendations to improve the integration of primary and behavioral healthcare services through enhanced payments, training, and technical assistance, and improving access to behavioral health providers for consultation and referral.
...Behavioral health workforce · Health information technology · Health workforce supply and demand · Integrated service delivery · Interprofessional...
Date: Sep 2015
Examines the impact of 2006 federal legislation allowing waivered physicians to prescribe and expand FDA approved buprenorphine as a treatment for opioid use disorder to a maximum of 100 patients. Discusses buprenorphine distribution by both urban and rural waivered physicians, opioid treatment programs, and treatment facilities for substance abuse.
...Behavioral health workforce · Clinics · Illicit drug use · Legislation and regulations · Prescription drug misuse · Substance use and misuse...
Date: Oct 2021
Examines the contribution of National Health Service Corps (NHSC) and non-NHSC clinicians to medical and behavioral health costs per visit, using 2013-2017 data from 1,022 Federally Qualified Health Centers merged with the NHSC participant data. Features statistics on average costs per visit for medical or behavioral healthcare, with breakdowns including rural facility location.
...Behavioral health workforce · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Primary care · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: Jun 2014
Compares rural and urban substance use counselors' perceptions of barriers to providing substance use treatment by analyzing data collected from 28 counselors in Kentucky.
...Misuse, 49(7), 891-901 06/2014 Access · Behavioral health workforce · Rural-urban differences · Substance use and misuse...
Date: Apr 2014
Describes the efforts of psychologists searching for innovative ways to reach out to people in isolated communities. Includes a specific focus on Native American and veteran populations to address stigma and access to care, and create a preventive environment.
...Behavioral health workforce · Stigma · Substance use and misuse · Suicide and suicide prevention · Tribal communities · Veterans...
Date: Jul 2025
Blog post discussing the rural health transformation program established in the July 2025 budget reconciliation law. Describes potential priorities for states' use of the rural health transformation program funding. Outlines additional steps Congress could take to help rural hospitals serve their communities.
...Behavioral health workforce · Emergency medical services · Funding · Hospitals · Legislation and regulations · Medicare · Policy · Rural Health...
Date: Jun 2022
Semi-annual report to Congress from the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC). Discusses access to care, the oversight and transparency of managed care directed payments, access to vaccines for adult Medicaid beneficiaries, how Medicaid policy can be used to support the adoption of health IT among behavioral health providers, care integration for people who are dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare, and advancing health equity in Medicaid. Includes rural references throughout.
...Behavioral health workforce · Health information technology · Healthcare business and finance · Integrated service delivery · Medicaid · Medicare...
Date: Mar 2025
Webinar recording discussing ethics as it relates to the delivery of behavioral healthcare services in rural areas. Provides guidance for behavioral health professionals on shaping care through ethical decision-making models and highlights topics relevant to rural communities.
...Center Network Behavioral health · Behavioral health workforce · Ethics · Healthcare quality · Mental health conditions · Population health...