2022 Cohort: Behavioral Health

Medicaid Innovation Collaborative's inaugural cohort identified scalable solutions to advance behavioral health equity for Medicaid beneficiaries in Arizona, Hawaii, and West Virginia.

Read about MIC's approach and lessons learned from the 2022 Cohort

Read the Sourcing and Selection Report

Focus Areas

Adolescent Behavioral Health

Increasing access to services and addressing challenges in behavioral health for adolescents and youth crisis support

Learn More About the Adolescent Focus

Maternal Behavioral Health

Improving engagement of mental health and substance use disorder treatment for pregnant and postpartum women

Learn More About the Maternal Focus

Participating States and Health Plans

The following three states and their managed care plans partnered with Medicaid Innovation Collaborative in this effort.

Arizona

Arizona Complete Health

Banner-University Family Care

Care1st Health Plan

Health Choice Arizona

Mercy Care

Molina

UnitedHealthcare Community Plan

Hawaii

AlohaCare

HMSA

Kaiser Permanente

Ohana Health Plan

UnitedHealthcare Community Plan

West Virginia

Aetna Better Health of West Virginia

The Health Plan

UniCare

The Medicaid Innovation Collaborative is a unique opportunity for these three participating states and their MCOs to identify innovative challenges and set a strategy to solve them. As a cohort, our programs have common needs and, through this collaborative, can leverage common solutions."