Scaling Integrated Behavioral Health Rapidly

Integrated behavioral health (IBH), which is team-based care co-delivered by primary care and behavioral health clinicians, is being rapidly adopted by practices and health systems. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid’s (CMS) Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) program1 provided Jefferson Health with the opportunity to implement a system-wide IBH program. A key ingredient for success included cultivating buy-in at the c-suite (senior executive), management, and frontline levels