What Role Should Behavioral Health Play in Population Health Management? – Population Health News

2020-09-03T21:09:15-07:00August 1st, 2016|Opinions|

Despite multiple attempts to legislate “parity” between behavioral health and medical benefits, until recently we have been largely unsuccessful in fully integrating the two disciplines. Our fragmented networks of care, the medical orientation benefit plans and even the social stigma associated with behavioral health diagnoses have contributed barriers to this lack of care integration.