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State officials are increasingly interested in identifying ways to improve access to high-quality behavioral health care and promote appropriate levels of spending to support these services. States that measure the portion of health care spending going to behavioral health can use this information to improve access, measure compliance, and set a target for spending.
On October 2, 2024, the Milbank Memorial Fund and Freedman HealthCare held a webinar on a new standardized methodology and code set to measure how much payers spend on behavioral health clinical services. Freedman HealthCare’s Vinayak Sinha and Mary Jo Condon presented the methodology, and several state officials shared their experiences with behavioral health spending measurement.
State panelists included: