If we want a brighter future for mental healthcare and substance use treatment, we have to work together.
To get the results we want, we need the right people, plan, and resources to come together. That’s where Path Forward comes in. We’re a coalition of healthcare purchasers, clinician associations, health systems, philanthropists, and health-related nonprofits united by one goal: giving mental healthcare the brightest possible future. And we could use your help.
Equitable Access: Our Action Plan
By restructuring how leading health purchasers, health systems, regulators, and other partners approach their mental healthcare and substance use treatment offerings, we are driving structural changes in these areas:
Specialty Access
Increasing access in-network for the full range of behavioral health needs with specialty care that is timely, accessible, equitable, and adequately reimbursed by insurers. This includes psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other counselors, as well as mental health and substance use treatment facilities. Achieved through: Network Adequacy Standards and Parity Compliance.
Integration
Accelerating integration of mental health into the general medical system–and through it early detection and intervention–by equipping the primary care providers who already identify and treat the most mental health cases and prescribe the most psychotropic medication. This includes pediatrics, family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics-gynecology, and other clinicians who are among America’s most beloved and trusted confidants. Achieved with the most evidence-based model that exists: Collaborative Care.
Quality
Promoting national standards and accelerating adoption of precision medicine and person-centered care across specialty mental health and primary care settings–just like we do now for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and other common chronic conditions. Achieved through Measurement-Based Care.
Recent Progress
Our Resources For Many
Find tools, presentations and more to ensure your practice has everything it needs to provide quality care for all those who seek it.
Clinicians ResourcesGet information on early detection methods, Collaborative Care Model practices, and more to ensure the health of our nation’s future.
Health Systems ResourcesReceive Employer Action Plan, sample contract language, and detailed data requests you can use to shape your organization’s benefits offerings and develop smart contracts with insurers.
Employers ResourcesDownload metrics, measures, and standards you can use to align your company’s policies with the Federal parity law and ensure those insured have adequate access and coverage.
Insurer ResourcesNational Policy Platform
Who’s Currently On Our Roster
We are made up of results-drive experts who represent a majority of the mental healthcare ecosystem.
Representing more than 38,000 physician members specializing in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and research of mental illnesses.
Representing more than 38,000 physician members specializing in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and research of mental illnesses.
The philanthropic and educational arm of APA, the importance of early intervention, access to care, and the need for high-quality services and treatment.
The philanthropic and educational arm of APA, the importance of early intervention, access to care, and the need for high-quality services and treatment.
Representing mental health philanthropy and the family members and loved ones who have been harmed by the current flawed mental health system.
Representing mental health philanthropy and the family members and loved ones who have been harmed by the current flawed mental health system.
Connecting a diverse community of result-oriented donors and partners who pool their resources and expertise to accelerate the most promising mental health initiatives to improve lives.
Connecting a diverse community of result-oriented donors and partners who pool their resources and expertise to accelerate the most promising mental health initiatives to improve lives.
Representing 380 Fortune 500 Chief Human Resource Officers making decisions on health insurance for 10 percent of the workforce.
Representing 380 Fortune 500 Chief Human Resource Officers making decisions on health insurance for 10 percent of the workforce.
Serving 4 million college students, 1,500 high schools and school districts.
Serving 4 million college students, 1,500 high schools and school districts.
Helping legislators, state officials, members of the judiciary, and local, state, and national leaders identify equitable systemic solutions to mental health needs.
Helping legislators, state officials, members of the judiciary, and local, state, and national leaders identify equitable systemic solutions to mental health needs.
Mobilizing government payers, unions and employers purchasing health care for 45 million Americans.
Mobilizing government payers, unions and employers purchasing health care for 45 million Americans.
Making mental wellbeing, including recovery from substance use challenges, a reality for everyone.
Making mental wellbeing, including recovery from substance use challenges, a reality for everyone.
The nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
The nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.