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Behavioral Health

ASPE publishes research to inform policymaking on behavioral health across sectors, including healthcare financing and delivery, public health, and human services. ASPE’s work focuses on supporting evidence-based prevention efforts, increasing access to high-quality treatment, and promoting long-term recovery from mental and substance use disorders.

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Tele-Behavioral Health Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries During COVID-19

Feasibility of Calculating Measures to Monitor Quality Performance of Behaviora...

ASPE’s Recent Contributions to Achieving Health and Well-Being Equity

State Efforts to Coordinate Provider Directory Accuracy

Advancing Research on Intersections of Child Welfare and Medicaid Using Linked ...

Project Update: Child Welfare and Health Infrastructure for Linking and Data An...

External Publications

ASPE produces and contributes to research that is published on other websites. Below are a few recent publications:

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Medicare Advantage Coverage Among Individuals Receiving Federal Housing Assistance

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Prior research from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) show older adults receiving federal housing assistance face disproportionately high rates of chronic conditions and health care utilization.
ASPE Issue Brief

Tele-Behavioral Health Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries During COVID-19

This issue brief summarizes analyses of Medicare fee-for-service data examining beneficiary use of tele-behavioral health services during 2019 and 2020. Results demonstrate that the number of Medicare beneficiaries receiving behavioral health care via telehealth increased dramatically during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
ASPE Issue Brief

Trends and Disparities in Pandemic Telehealth Use among People with Disabilities

This Issue Brief explores telehealth use for people and Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities and examines questions on the use of audio-only telehealth during the second and third years of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Report

Feasibility of Calculating Measures to Monitor Quality Performance of Behavioral Health Programs

The calculation of behavioral health quality measures at the clinic level holds great promise for monitoring clinic performance over time, and for providing information for clinics to use to revise their processes and procedures to improve their performance.
ASPE Issue Brief

Improving Data on the Workforce Delivering Home and Community-Based Services

On April 25, 2024, HHS and DoL released recommendations, in the form of an Issue Brief, to improve data infrastructure on the workforce delivering home and community-based services (HCBS) in response to President Biden’s
Fact Sheet

ASPE’s Recent Contributions to Achieving Health and Well-Being Equity

ASPE serves as a facilitator for HHS to advance equity in several ways.
ASPE Data Point

Estimates of Child Care Eligibility & Receipt for Fiscal Year 2020

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Research Brief

Child Care Workers’ Experience of Economic Hardship During the COVID-19 Pandemic, from 2021 to 2022

This brief shares findings from an analysis using U.S. Census Household Pulse Survey data to examine child care workers’ experience of economic hardship from 2021 to 2022 along different measures of economic hardship, across time, by race and ethnicity, and whether child care workers lived with young children. We find:
Report

State Efforts to Coordinate Provider Directory Accuracy

Provider directories are lists of in-network providers produced by health care plans. They are an important tool for individuals seeking health care providers, and for regulators who monitor the adequacy of health plans’ provider networks.
Report, Research Brief

Reconnecting Youth: Evidence Gap Map

Evidence Gap Map: Research Report and Overview