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
Areas of Focus
Adolescent Behavioral Health
Increasing access to services and addressing challenges in behavioral health for adolescents and youth crisis support
Maternal Behavioral Health
Improving engagement of mental health and substance use disorder treatment for pregnant and postpartum women
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."
Jami Snyder, Director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) on joining MIC
Program Goals
The program is focused on enabling state Medicaid programs to collaborate with their peers, scale their impact, and engage their managed care plans, beneficiaries, and other key stakeholders.
In a 12-month program, joined by a cohort of peers, state Medicaid programs will be able to:
Identify and define a health equity priority in their state that can be advanced through private-sector, tech-enabled innovation
Through a national RFI and call for solutions, review a pool of vendors that are actively solving these priorities
Share these solutions with managed care plans and other key stakeholders in their state
Support managed care plans to identify and develop strategies to advance health equity efforts