Practice Innovations, Vol 8(4), Dec 2023, 296-304; doi:10.1037/pri0000214
Successful collaboration between primary care and mental health professionals faces numerous barriers. Offering integrated primary care services provides a promising alternative to mental health referrals. This national study investigated the prevalence and rate of mental health facilities offering integrated primary care and differences by state. We used 2 years of the National Mental Health Services Survey to identify outpatient mental health treatment facilities in the United States (total N = 9,889; 2015: n = 5,019; 2020: n = 4,870). We used multiple logistic regression to model whether treatment facilities offered integrated primary care. We defined state as a random effect, adjusted for covariates, and reported predicted probabilities. Overall, 17.5% of treatment facilities (n = 1,731) offered integrated primary care. Access to integrated services increased over time, such that the odds of integration were higher in 2020 (vs. 2015, aOR = 1.19, 95% CI [1.07, 1.33], p