Hospitals and health systems are constantly seeking new ways to improve the quality and cost of care. Increasingly, hospitals and physicians are turning to clinical integration as a strategy to ...

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) will break its own rules to test new models. New alternative payment models (APM) underperformed during CMMI's first decade. CMMI hopes that a ...

This is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Medicare and Medicaid Integration. The featured topic includes analysis, proposals, and commentary that will inform policies on the ...

A group of national physician organizations has issued a call to action to integrate behavioral health services into primary care settings. “More people than ever are struggling with their behavioral ...

Health systems continue to grow in size. Financial integration—the ownership of hospitals or physician practices—often has anticompetitive effects that contribute to the higher prices for health care ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “There is high-quality evidence to suggest that behavioral health integration improves patient outcomes, and ...

This month's Crain's Forum explores Michigan’s $3 billion public mental health system, which has many layers for those in need to navigate. Integrated care has been a topic in the health care ...

It's been more than 20 years since a landmark Institute of Medicine study reported siloing behavioral and primary health leads to inferior care, yet walls between the two still remain. A Milliman ...

In every American community — wealthy or poor, rural or urban, young or old — at least 1 in 5 people live with mental health disorders. And yet no American community has an adequate supply of mental ...

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