Payer’s Business Case for Behavioral Health

Elizabeth Cuervo Tilson, MD

Chief Medical Officer
NC Dept Health & Human Srvcs

Dr. Betsey Cuervo Tilson, practicing pediatrician and Chief Medical Officer for the State of North Carolina, makes the case for integrating behavioral health into primary care, simplifying behavioral health reimbursement, and raising behavioral health provider efficiency. Evidence demonstrates this reduces overall healthcare spending, benefiting self-insured employers and Medicaid and other payers.