Transforming Care and Improving Access to Mental Health &
Substance Use Services
Mental health and substance use conditions have a significant impact on employees, families, workplaces, and healthcare costs. The Florida Alliance helps employers understand where gaps exist in access, quality, and coverage and what they can do to improve care for their employees and families.
Our work focuses on helping employers evaluate and strengthen their behavioral health benefits, with particular attention to:
- Mental health parity – helping employers understand their responsibilities and assess whether employees have equitable access to mental health and substance use disorder care. Our Mental Health Parity Compliance Toolkit developed in partnership with the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions and funded by the Bowman Family Foundation provides employers with practical guidance and resources to support compliance and strengthen oversight of their health plans and vendors.
- Access to high-quality care – examining network adequacy, timely access to providers, and barriers that can make behavioral healthcare difficult to obtain even when it is technically covered.
- Integration of behavioral and physical health care – exploring evidence-based approaches that better connect mental health, substance use, and medical care.
- Employer benefit strategies – identifying benefit designs, programs, and emerging solutions that can improve outcomes while delivering value for employers and their employees.
- Measurement and accountability – helping employers ask better questions of health plans, behavioral health vendors, and other partners about access, quality, outcomes, and performance.
The Florida Alliance also works with national experts and other employer coalitions to bring employers practical tools, education, and opportunities to learn from one another.
Our goal is to move beyond simply offering mental health benefits to ensuring that employees and their families can access effective, high-quality care when they need it.
The Central Florida Health Care Coalition, Incorporated d/b/a Florida Alliance for Healthcare Value is providing this information to our employer members solely in our capacity as a 501c3 nonprofit education organization and not as advice in any capacity. The information that is not in the public domain is private and confidential.