Results

From our partner organization the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions. Every year the National Alliance asks employers what they are doing about healthcare costs, benefits, and quality. The 2026 Pulse of the Purchaser survey gathered responses from 408 employers, fielded in May and June 2026, representing 37 coalitions and roughly 3.7 million covered lives. […]

From our partner organization the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics now serve 3.4 million people a year across 48 states and territories. The National Council’s 2026 CCBHC Impact Report, drawn from a survey of the nation’s 539 certified clinics, documents what the model has delivered since Medicaid began paying for […]

From our partner organization Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute. AI should not replace mental health professionals. It should give them more time with patients. That is the principle behind Meadows Institute’s five briefs on positive use cases of AI in mental health care, which map where the technology is already helping clinicians and where it […]

From our partner organization NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness. People are asking AI chatbots about their mental health by the millions, and until now there has been no public test of what those chatbots say back. NAMI’s AI and Mental Health resource page, built on a national NAMI/Ipsos poll, sets out what people […]

Path Forward has just released key findings from the second of two major national surveys of employees and large employers with the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), revealing a consistent theme: while mental health coverage is now widespread in employer-based insurance, that coverage too often lacks the transparency, accountability, and quality controls needed to ensure […]

In the spring of 2025, Path Forward supported a survey by the Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI) of 400 U.S. employers (500+ employees) to assess how mental health benefits are being offered and measured. The results highlight a paradox: 97% of employers cover mental health and/or substance use care but only 22% actually monitor the […]

From our partner organization Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, with West Health. In the rest of medicine, clinicians measure whether treatment is working and adjust it. In mental health, that practice — measurement-informed care — is still the exception. Bright Spots in Measurement-Informed Mental Health Care profiles the health systems and clinics that have made […]

From our partner organization Shatterproof, with the Bowman Family Foundation. Most people who die by suicide have seen a health care provider in the year before their death usually in primary care. This issue brief gathers three real-world studies showing what happens when primary care practices deliver the Collaborative Care Model: suicide risk falls by […]

To help employers, the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions has developed the Mental Health Initiative Guidebook: Employer Mental Health Strategies—An Essential Investment. This step-by-step guidebook provides actionable steps for implementing comprehensive mental health strategies.

The Collaborative Care Model: How it works, how it can be integrated into primary and specialty care settings, and its many benefits.

From our partner organization the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. Community behavioral health organizations are asked to report on hundreds of measures, yet few of those measures tell a clinician whether a client is getting better. The National Council’s Medical Director Institute set out to change that, defining what measurement-informed care should mean in community […]

The issues of mental health access and quality have become increasingly recognized as foundational to employer health strategy. 

Key Focus Areas: Network Access, Other Access, Quality of Care Management, Integration into Primary Care and Workplace Mental Health.