This presentation raises a series of key behavioral health issues, including:
- how does the current benefit design for behavioral health services affect access to needed services?
- are current payment and delivery system policies reaching the right results?What can be done to facilitate the transition to more integrated behavioral health, medical,
and social services? - how can behavioral health agency oversight and funding sources be better aligned?
- should the need for the Institutions for Mental Disease (IMD) exclusion be reexamined? and,
- does expansion to the new adult group raise special issues related to the delivery of behavioral health services?
