Limited funding is often cited as the biggest impediment to improving the quality of community behavioral health services through the implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs). To address the costs of EBP implementation, some large mental health systems offer enhanced reimbursement rates to agencies to better cover EBP costs (Dopp et al., 2020). The Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS) has employed this financing strategy to support wide-scale EBP implementation, offering an opportunity to examine the real-time experiences of community providers (Powell et al., 2016). In partnership with DBHIDS, we are conducting a mixed-methods investigation of community providers’ perceptions of the enhanced reimbursement rate and its impact on implementation and other related outcomes.

Note: This is a large, complex dataset, thus it will allow for multiple studies /manuscripts/ conference presentations