Colorado Reforms Seek to Expand, Strengthen the Behavioral Health Safety Net

• By: Cristen Bates, MPH Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing | Colorado Medicaid and CHP+ Behavioral Health Initiatives and Coverage
• October 22nd, 2024
• behavioral health access, behavioral health reform, community-based services, Fall 2024 Issue, funding, Medicaid, mental health care, providers, substance use disorder, value-based payments
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July of 2024 brought new laws impacting Colorado’s behavioral health system. While Colorado has continuously made some improvements and investments in behavioral health programs, the fundamental definitions of safety net services and providers were more than 60 years old. New Colorado reform laws...

Systems Transformation in Progress: Promise and Pitfalls

• By: Ashley Brody, MPA, CPRP Search for Change, Inc.
• April 1st, 2017
• behavioral health reform, community-based care, delivery system reform, healthcare integration, managed care, Medicaid, social determinants, value-based care
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A couple of months ago I attended a conference in Albany in order to learn of the latest developments in the state’s movement toward a “value based” healthcare delivery system. Monica Oss, Chief Executive Officer of Open Minds, a publication that explores the intricacies of behavioral...

The Presidential Election: Time for Behavioral Health Advocates to Speak Out

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Columbia University School of Social Work
• October 1st, 2016
• access to care, Affordable Care Act, behavioral health reform, healthcare policy, mental health system, quality of care, social determinants of health, workforce development
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The next President of the United States can act to improve or to harm the American mental health system. Behavioral health advocates should speak out now to provide the political pressure that will be needed to improve rather than to harm the system. Preserve The Affordable Care Act Perhaps the...