From Coding to Braiding: Strategies for Financing and Sustaining Integrated Behavioral Health

This June 10, 2026, webinar with Monique Thornton, M.P.H. (Let's Talk Public Health), Judith Steinberg, M.D., M.P.H., FACP (Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care), and Jodi Polaha, Ph.D. (AHRQ Integration Academy, Institute for IBH, East Tennessee State University), provides an inside look at the new Integrated Behavioral Health Financing Toolkit and explores practical approaches to building sustainable IBH funding models across primary care, health systems, safety net settings, and rural communities. Viewers will learn how practices can move beyond fee-for-service reimbursement by leveraging braided financing strategies, to include alternative payment models, grants, philanthropy, graduate medical education funding, and internal cross-subsidization. The webinar also features a case example of a rural health clinic using the IBH Financing Toolkit to add a behavioral health consultant to address opioid use disorder and suicide risk. For more information, go to https://integrationacademy.ahrq.gov/v....