Behavioral Health

Behavioral health systems face rising demand, workforce shortages and fragmented care across clinical and community settings. Substance use disorder and overdose continue to strain systems, requiring approaches that balance clinical rigor, equity and real-world implementation. Comagine Health® brings deep behavioral health, Medicaid and physical health expertise across policy, care delivery and system improvement.

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How We Help

Strengthening behavioral health systems and improving care

Sustainable improvement depends on more than clinical services — it takes coordinated systems, reliable data and alignment across providers, payers and community-based supports. Much of our behavioral health work focuses on substance use prevention, treatment, recovery and harm reduction, strengthening coordination, improving access and supporting more equitable outcomes across systems.

Turning behavioral health data into evidence

Turn multi-source datasets into actionable evidence on behavioral health trends, disparities and system performance to inform policy and program decisions.

Strengthening safety and clinical quality

Strengthen behavioral health care delivery through evidence-based standards, safety improvement and continuous quality improvement aligned with regulatory expectations.

Connecting clinical and community care

Improve coordination across providers, peers and community-based organizations to support more connected, person-centered behavioral health care.

Supporting individuals with complex needs

Support individuals with complex behavioral health needs through coordinated, patient-centered services that reduce barriers and improve outcomes.

Understanding program performance

Understand why programs are performing as they are and identify practical opportunities to improve behavioral health services and care transitions.

Selected Work

Recent engagements

Advancing person-centered behavioral health care

As the Independent and Qualified Agent for the Oregon Health Authority’s Behavioral Health Support Program, we support adults with severe and persistent mental illness through person-centered care planning, coordinated services and system navigation.

Strengthening overdose prevention and response

We conduct comprehensive data collection on overdoses in Idaho and Oregon to inform prevention and response efforts for Overdose Data to Action.

Ensuring appropriate access to behavioral health services

On behalf of Alaska Medicaid’s behavioral health program, we administer utilization review and care coordination for acute inpatient, residential and psychiatric services, supporting timely, medically appropriate care.

Building behavioral health capacity in long-term care settings

We partner in a multi-state Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health in Nursing Facilities, delivering training, technical assistance and quality improvement support for nursing facility residents.

Related Practices

Explore the practices behind this work

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Coordinated, person-centered care for complex behavioral health needs

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Service delivery and quality improvement strengthened

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Insight and decision-ready information from the systems this work builds

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Program design, policy implementation and system transformation

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Programs, interventions and outcomes assessed over time

Let’s strengthen behavioral health systems together.

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