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Preliminary evidence for behavioral health ECHO programs suggests positive impacts on providers, treatment planning, and emergency department costs.


Providers reported that behavioral health screening stimulated new conversations about behavioral health concerns, the BHPs provided clinically useful services, and patients benefited from the IBHC program.


If needs are similar after health center expansion, more than 27,000 full time behavioral health providers will be needed to serve 40 million medical patients, and grantees will need to increase behavioral health staff more than four-fold. More behavioral health is seen in primary care than in any other setting, and health center clients have greater behavioral health needs than typical primary care patients.


Results suggest that the Behavioral Health Integration Program model of pediatric integrated care is feasible and that hiring behavioral health staff with specific training in pediatric, evidence-informed behavioral health treatments may be a critical variable in increasing outcomes such as referral rates, self-reported competency, and satisfaction.


The authors conclude that the behavioral health care system is entering an era of flux as it experiments with ways of integrating behavioral and primary care.


In an internal survey of 33 medical providers in an integrated family medicine residency, 97% of respondents report they value behavioral health integration to such a degree that they are more likely to accept a job in a setting that offers integrated behavioral health.


ECHO has the potential to improve access to effective and cost-effective behavioral health care by virtually integrating behavioral health knowledge and support in sites where specialty providers are not available.


Results support the value of integrated medical-behavioral health care for improving rates of care.


These findings provide valuable resource information for behavioral health providers throughout the United States.


The measure was found to be feasible and sensitive to detecting variation in integrated behavioral health services capacity.