This toolkit shares practical steps and best practices for health care providers and administrators looking to implement telehealth services for their patients.

A community-based care transition and management intervention showed improved outcomes for patients transitioning to outpatient community care following a psychiatric hospitalization.

A street medicine program increased post-hospitalization follow-up care for unsheltered individuals experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles.

Evidence-based behavioral intervention in which positive behaviors are reinforced with material incentives may address clinical problems among people receiving medications for opioid use disorder.

Trust, flexible funding, cross-sector support, sustainability, and an explicit focus on structural racism are identified as key components of effective community engagement to advance health equity.

A patient intervention that supported outpatient addiction treatment with destigmatized conversations about substance use between patients and primary care providers showed long-term benefits.

Peer providers with lived experiences of substance use and mental health disorders can help improve patient outcomes and play a unique role in the behavioral health workforce.

A pharmacist-led substance use disorder intervention improved treatment retention for patients with opioid and alcohol use disorder.

Personalized patient navigation supports for people with comorbid substance use disorders reduced rates of hospital readmissions and emergency department use.

A review of existing literature finds that medical respite care reduces hospital and emergency department visits, increased use of outpatient care, and leads to overall cost savings.

Home-based intensive care model for Medicaid and dually eligible enrollees with complex needs led to positive health outcomes and reduced acute care spending, particularly for individuals with a behavioral health diagnosis.

Study identifies predictive factors in individuals’ adherence to medication for opioid use disorder in outpatient settings.

Enhanced primary care for adults with serious mental illness led to increases in primary care visits and health screenings as well as decreases in inpatient utilization.

Contingency management shows lasting effectiveness in promoting substance use abstinence.

Initiative successfully implemented several evidence-based and promising addiction care models across multiple medical settings, including an inpatient addiction consult team, a low-threshold bridge clinic, peer recovery coaches, and office-based addiction treatment nurses.

Mixed methods study assessed implementation successes, challenges, and outcomes of Medicaid behavioral health homes in Maine.

Housing First programs reduce homelessness and health care use more effectively than Treatment First approaches.

Identifies opportunities to strengthen integrated programs to improve care and support positive health outcomes for dually eligible individuals both during and beyond the pandemic.

A jail-based methadone treatment program is shown to reduce reincarnation and lead to overall cost savings.

Examines promising strategies to meet the needs of dually eligible individuals with serious mental illness, with an emphasis on opportunities to innovate with flexible spending within a capitated payment model.