States are increasingly focusing on the integration of physical and behavioral health as they work to improve health care delivery. Understanding available data on this topic is important for developing quality improvement and evaluation strategies related to integration efforts.
SHADAC recently released a memo that provides an overview of federal data resources that include key indicators on behavioral health and substance abuse and a high level description of each data source and a list of potential measures of interest followed by a summary table outlining the target population for each data resource, the frequency of data collection, level of geography and ease of access/use.
This memo was produced by SHADAC with support from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (the Innovation Center). SHADAC is part of a team led by NORC at the University of Chicago that serves as the State Innovation Models (SIM) Resource Support Contractor. SHADAC and other technical assistance partners support states and the Innovation Center in designing and testing multi-payer health system transformation approaches.