Tuesday, October 4, 2011

25 million Americans suffer from alcohol and drug abuse and only 4 million get the help and treatment they need. Something's wrong with the access to proper care and treatment for addiction patients if less than 16% of them are getting adequate help. Federal health care reform has now written mental health and addiction services into the federal parity law as well as into the health care law. The key push is to integrate behavioral health with primary health care. Today I spoke with Connie Peters, Vice President for Addiction Services at the Association for Behavioral Healthcare about the ongoing push for change in the realm of addiction treatment and addiction services. The lack of integration between primary health care and speciality behavioral health care is a prevalent part of the way health care systems are run in this country. The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has the potential to profoundly change this system.

ACA places an emphasis on two kinds of integrated care models. These are patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations (ACOs). Accountable care organizations are basically a group of coordinated health care providers who provide health care services to a group of patients. They are accountable for the quality, cost and overall care of patients assigned to them. There is plenty of evidence that link the importance of targeting integration efforts where patients will be interacting most directly with the health care system itself. Doctors need to do a better job of addressing and providing treatment for the medical needs of mental health and addiction patients. The ACA has already authorized $50 million in 2010 and additional funds all the way to 2014 for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to cover a type of grant called "co-location grants" to fuse services for mental illness and other medical conditions with the community-based behavioral health setting. There is also another initiative that would provide funding for the improvement of federally qualified health centers, which would mean they would provide behavioral health care in addition to the traditional means of treatment.

While the ACA continues to promise improvement in the areas of mental health, addiction and the infusion of primary health care, there are still several obstacles halting the process. One concern is that the prospect of lower numbers of uninsured people who need access to health care will tempt the government to cut direct financing. This is particularly likely considering the cuts to discretionary, or "optional", spending that the government agreed upon in the recent debt-ceiling deal. Nonetheless it remains to be seen just how health care laws will bend and reshape to improve the quality of health care though better integration methods and expanding coverage.


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