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Best Practices in Maternal Health and Mental Health Benefit Design

The following are steps payors can take to support maternal mental health.

Equitable Benefit Structure

Reducing high deductible plans or carving out maternity and mental health care from deductible applicability

Transportation benefit (ride share)

Required training about racism for network providers

Monitoring language in directories for behavioral health providers

Maternal Mental Health

Monitoring Perinatal Mental Health-Certified Mental Health Network Adequacy

Including Certified Peer Support ​S​pecialists in provider networks (practicing under a licensed behavioral health provider)

Maternity Support

Including Certified Doulas (practicing under a licensed ob provider/midwife) in the Provider Network

Covering Birth Control

Providing Infertility Coverage

Mental Health Care

Embedding Mental Health care in Medical Care (requiring medical insurers to bake mental health into PCP / OB contracts)

Describing how out-of-network mental health care providers are covered as in-network providers when there are shortages of qualified providers

Achieving Value in Mental Health Support

 

Maternal Mental Health Disorders – What all Employers Should Know

Hosted in partnership with the Colorado Business Group on Health.

Learn more about MMH disorders and also what employers and business groups on health can do to improve outcomes.

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