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Behavioral Health Solutions and Services

As former behavioral health agency leaders, clinicians, and technologists, we understand the urgent behavioral health challenges you face, including the complex needs associated with rising suicide rates, overdose deaths, and the youth mental health crisis. We leverage our deep experience and trusted solutions to help federal, state, and local agencies build integrated and sustainable healthcare systems that help them meet the growing demand for mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services.

Advancing outcomes

From advanced data analytics and system implementations to policy development, our end-to-end capabilities provide innovative strategies that modernize both technology and operations. Through a tailored approach, we help behavioral health agencies maximize the use of data and harness transformative policies to improve health outcomes for the people they serve. Our services include:

Integrated and sustainable systems

We have collaborated with 16 states to transform their mental health services and SUD systems and operations. Our collaborations have helped modernize technology infrastructure, streamline operations, measure outcomes, and increase transparency for internal and external behavioral health stakeholders.

  • Data analytics to improve efficiency and track outcomes

    Challenge: A state agency needed a strategy to leverage behavioral health data for evidence-based policy decision-making across the care continuum.

    Solution: Deloitte conducted a gap analysis of the existing state data warehouse and pinpointed major restructuring opportunities. Deloitte then engaged in an agile modernization of the agency's entire data ecosystem by transitioning to a cloud-based Snowflake setup resulting in a 90% reduction in data load times, an easy-to-use self-service interface, and a suite of dynamic internal and external (public facing) dashboards to monitor health outcomes.

  • Enhancing policy and programs

    Challenge: A state needed support in developing Medicaid rates for new and existing programs providing behavioral health services, individualized service program financial management, and technical assistance.

    Solution: Deloitte worked closely with the state agency to appropriately price benefits within the Medicaid managed care programs. The team updated and recalibrated risk adjustments and monitored effectiveness throughout. This aided the State in understanding the overall cost drivers and supported its development of rates for each program. Our work also included supporting policy and financial management tasks through cost benefit and financial impact analysis to assist with program changes.

  • Activating strategic plans and promoting data-driven decision-making

    Challenge: Deloitte was tasked with refining and activating a statewide effort aimed at addressing the behavioral health workforce shortage, improving patient transitions into the community, and modernizing agency operations and technology.

    Solution: Deloitte worked closely with a state agency focused on behavioral health and developmental disabilities to refine and activate its strategic plan. The team worked with 65 cross-agency stakeholders to establish governance and structures to support leadership and teams in driving progress, decision-making, and communications for critical priorities. Activities were supported by a detailed agency-wide and public-facing dashboard in PowerBI. The Deloitte team supported the agency in building a new strategic planning office, as well as transitioning the relevant capabilities for continued growth and operational success.