About Us

COMPREHENSIVE CARE

In close partnership with clients, CHIPA, in alliance with Carelon Behavioral Health, helps bring together the fragmented pieces of health care to achieve better results for the people in our care. Our programs are clinically driven, fiscally responsible, and focused on allowing our members to live their lives to the fullest potential.

Since 1991, the Carelon Health IPA of California (CHIPA) has provided managed behavioral health services to California residents, making it one of the state’s largest regional behavioral health delivery systems to address the issues presented by behavioral health and chronic disease. Carelon Behavioral Health is a Massachusetts-based, NCQA-accredited managed behavioral health organization.

WHY OUR PARTNERS CHOOSE CHIPA AND CARELON BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

CHIPA and Carelon Behavioral Health bring together a collection of industry-leading behavioral health experts, managed and advised by nationally recognized medical, behavioral, human services, and pharmacy clinicians. We have developed uniquely effective programs built upon seamless integration with our clients’ medical and disease-management programs that have been proven to lower the total cost of care while measurably improving patient outcomes.

LOCAL CARE

CHIPA’s and Carelon Behavioral Health’s solutions are local in each market, recognizing that an effective care-management program must recognize and work within local delivery systems and practices.

INDUSTRY-LEADING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Each of our solutions includes our proprietary and highly scalable information technology platform, to help providers access the information they need when they need it.
Carelon Behavioral Health is fully accredited by both NCQA and URAC.