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Behavioral Health<\/h1>\n

NCQA recognizes the role behavioral health, mental health conditions and substance use disorders, plays in overall health, as well as the need for improved access to care; the need to evaluate the quality of care and patient experience of care across the behavioral health service continuum, and the demand for innovative payment models to adequately support high quality behavioral health care.<\/p>\n

NCQA supports improvement in quality and access for behavioral health services in various ways. We accredit managed behavioral healthcare organizations (MBHO) and certified community behavioral health centers (CCBHCs), and have incorporated several behavioral health measures in HEDIS\u00ae (Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set). Many of our HEDIS measures are used in quality reporting and value-based purchasing by Medicare, Medicaid and commercial insurance plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Behavioral Health NCQA recognizes the role behavioral health, mental health conditions and substance use disorders, plays in overall health, as well as the need for improved access to care; the need to evaluate the quality of care and patient experience of care across the behavioral health service continuum, and the demand for innovative payment models […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-bh.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40501","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBehavioral Health - NCQA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn how NCQA improves behavioral health care quality, access, and outcomes through accreditation, measurement, and evidence\u2011based programs.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/behavioral-health\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Behavioral Health - NCQA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Learn how NCQA improves behavioral health care quality, access, and outcomes through accreditation, measurement, and evidence\u2011based programs.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/behavioral-health\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NCQA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NCQA.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-09T20:06:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/NCQA_cmyk_tag.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"627\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@NCQA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/behavioral-health\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/behavioral-health\/\",\"name\":\"Behavioral Health - NCQA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-12-03T18:51:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-09T20:06:04+00:00\",\"description\":\"Learn how NCQA improves behavioral health care quality, access, and outcomes through accreditation, measurement, and evidence\u2011based programs.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/behavioral-health\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/behavioral-health\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/behavioral-health\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Behavioral Health\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/\",\"name\":\"NCQA\",\"description\":\"Measuring quality. 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