Expanding Behavioral Health Care Workforce Participation in Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace Plans

by Health and Medicine Division

About 20 percent of all Americans live with a behavioral health condition, but only half of this population receives treatment - with direct consequences that include poor physical health outcomes, increased health care costs, and reduced quality of life and life span.

Barriers to obtaining behavioral health treatment are most evident in populations receiving Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace plans. Behavioral health care providers serving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309718724
• ISBN13: 9780309718721
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 264 Pages