Using a New Payment Model to Integrate Primary Care into Specialty Behavioral Health Settings

Behavioral health is often most effectively provided using flexible models of team-based care tailored to meet the needs of each individual. Yet these models don’t always fit neatly into traditional fee-for-service payments. Alternative payment models (APMs) offer greater payment flexibility for clinicians and, when coupled with infrastructure investment, hold promise for advancing integration of physical health care into behavioral health specialty care.