Results

As of July 1, 2025, both Colorado and Tennessee will now reimburse primary care providers for delivering mental health services through the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM). With these updates, Colorado and Tennessee join 34 other states in covering Collaborative Care through Medicaid.

Path Forward, along with our partners, the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute and the American Psychiatric Association, commissioned Milliman to conduct the most comprehensive claims analysis to date. Reflecting 219 million Americans across Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial plans, this data gives us our first true national picture of Collaborative Care adoption.

A first-ever national analysis reveals a tenfold increase in the commercial health insurance market in the use of the Collaborative Care Model – a proven team-based approach to mental health care that integrates screening, treatment, and psychiatric consultation directly into primary care.

Path Forward released a landmark analysis this week of the nationwide adoption of the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM).

The report shows a tenfold increase between from 2018 to 2022 for Medicare and Medicaid and 2018 to 2023 for commercial insurance in the number of people who are receiving treatment through this proven, evidence-based method of addressing mental health needs in primary and specialty care settings.

The landscape of mental health and substance use disorder care in the United States is poised for a significant transformation with the recent reintroduction of the Complete Care Act on Capitol Hill. The COMPLETE (Connecting Our Medical Providers with Links to Expand Tailored and Effective) Care Act aims to enhance access and integration of mental […]

Path Forward members, through ongoing education of policy leaders, successfully established a National Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS) to support collaborative care implementation through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

The collective work of our partners has been instrumental in advocating for Integrated Care, the Collaborative Care Model and Measurement-Based Care as a way to resolve the mental health crisis in the US. Federal support of these evidence-based approaches will have a profound impact, particularly in Medicaid programs, and will help accelerate the adoption of these models nationwide.

The Path Forward, a coalition of health care purchasers, clinician associations, health systems, philanthropists, and health-related nonprofits, appreciates the Administration for its focus on ensuring improved access to quality mental health and substance use disorder care.   While this rule may prove challenging for employers and health plans in the near term, it is the responsibility […]

We are honored to announce that NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization, has joined Path Forward in our mission to ensure equitable access to quality mental health and substance use care. NAMI’s leadership in advocating for individuals with mental health conditions and their families has had a profound impact on communities across the nation.

The National Council for Mental Wellbeing has joined Path Forward, a coalition that brings together stakeholders from across the health care ecosystem, to advance targeted policies and practices that will expand equitable access to quality mental health care.

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

Funded by the Sozosei Foundation, this white paper report presents the NCQA’s findings and highlights models that have successfully improved access to care. These models have the potential to influence the future design of behavioral health networks and adequacy standards.