In addition to contracting with the Arkansas Department of Human Services for the past eight years to administer its behavioral health care delivery system, Beacon is an equity partner in Empower Healthcare Solutions (Empower), a Provider-led Arkansas Shared Savings Entity (PASSE). PASSE is Arkansas’ new model of care that addresses the overall health care needs…
The Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD) contracts with Beacon to provide administrative services in support of Georgia’s publicly-funded, behavioral health and intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) services system. The covered population includes adults and children who are eligible for fee-for-service Medicaid and those who are uninsured, as well as individuals with…
Untreated mental illnesses in the United States cost more than $100 billion a year in lost productivity, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Workplace absences due to a mental health disorder or physical illness/injury (such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, alcoholism or substance abuse) potentially hamper a company’s productivity and bottom line through…
Last September during Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, Beacon launched Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training to address the stigma associated with suicide and to empower staff with the tools and information they need to make a meaningful difference for someone considering suicide. MHFA aligns with the tenants of Beacon’s white paper “We Need to Talk…
“He can do wonderful things, and I want to just give him that opportunity. I want him to have a normal life.” “Once she hit the age of 13, instead of calling the ambulance, they were going to call the police and lock her up. And I did not want her to get caught up…
Colorado is the second fastest-growing state in the United States, yet it is sparsely populated compared to its geographical size, ranking it 37th by population density. Like several western states, Colorado’s Rocky Mountain terrain and number of rural communities combined with a statewide shortage of behavioral health professionals present many challenges to mental health care…
On Friday, September 8, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) hosted the Behavioral Health Payment and Care Delivery Innovation Summit. The purpose of the one-day summit was to discuss alternative payment models that improve behavioral health quality and access across the public health delivery system as well…
Every year, more than 41,000 people die by suicide, making it the tenth leading cause of death in U.S. While these statistics are sobering, Suicide Prevention Awareness Month reminds us that dying by suicide is not an inevitability. In fact, for every one person who dies by suicide in the U.S., there are approximately 278…
Connecticut’s ACCESS Mental Health is a state-funded program created to ensure that all youth under 19 years of age, irrespective of insurance coverage, have access to psychiatric and behavioral health services through contact with their primary care providers (PCP). The program is designed to increase PCPs’ behavioral health knowledge base so they can identify and…
Beacon and the Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership (MBHP) partnered with the Massachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance (MHSA) in a new project called Hospital to Housing. The initiative, which targets chronically homeless Beacon/MBHP members, has overall goals to: reduce hospitalizations and emergency service usage improve health outcomes for high-risk members stabilize members in housing Hospital to Housing…