What will it take to integrate behavioral and physical healthcare?
March 24, 2025 | Elizabeth Matney and Travis Bias
If you had a magic wand to redesign the whole behavioral health system, what would you do? Former State Medicaid Director and Health and Human Services Chief Operating Officer for the State of Iowa Elizabeth Matney waves her hypothetical wand, delving into ways we can integrate and reform behavioral healthcare access and payment.
We definitely have a practitioner shortage. And that is a component of the access issue that predated the pandemic, but was made exponentially worse during the pandemic because supply continued to decrease and demand just went off the charts.
Elizabeth Matney
