Behavioral Health Care Delivery Models and Examples: Contractual to Functional Integration

Navy Medicine has identified mental and behavioral health as one of the major product line areas for which it wants to develop a strategy for providing these specialty services. To inform this strategy development process, we provide a review of the mental health care delivery models that dominate the U.S. health care delivery system, assess where the Navy stands in comparison to current delivery trends, and outline salient issues regarding potential changes that the Navy should consider as part of its managed care evolution. This report focuses on three types of delivery models: contractual, functional and educational.