RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) – The Virginia Division of Medical Support Expert services (DMAS) introduced the launch of a new behavioral health and fitness dashboard.

According to a push release, the Behavioral Health Utilization and Expenditures dashboard will track how Medicaid associates use companies for mental wellbeing and developmental disabilities.

“This dashboard delivers engaging and informative visualizations that show the crucial work of the Medicaid agency, managed care overall health programs, and suppliers to guidance our associates with behavioral overall health demands,” stated Virginia Secretary of Overall health and Human Assets John Littel. “We are fired up to provide better transparency to this energy for customers, vendors, taxpayers and other stakeholders.”

The dashboard aids the DMAS have an understanding of who accesses behavioral wellbeing procedure, what services are in better desire, and if there are sure services becoming extra utilized based mostly on locations and communities.

Virginia Medicaid introduced nine new behavioral overall health services in 2021 and these providers are a portion of a multi-phase initiative to strengthen the excellent of behavioral wellness care.

The new dashboard can be located on the Medicaid agency internet site.