Mental Health and Substance Abuse Information

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Information 

Companion Benefit Alternatives Inc. (CBA)* manages behavioral health and substance abuse benefits for most of our members and their dependents. (Please note: Employers may choose another organization to manage these benefits. Please check your handbook to make sure you have these benefits and to see which plan you have.)

Your Mental Health Matters

Behavioral health issues can be stressful and confusing. CBA is here to help you navigate the behavioral health care system. With tools and information to help keep life on course, CBA is your go-to resource. On behalf of your health plan, CBA administers the behavioral health program and provides mental health and substance abuse benefits.

Good mental health is vital to your overall health. When our mental health is poor, it can affect our entire body and significantly harm our physical health.

For instance, research shows that stress is closely linked to high blood pressure, heart disease and obesity. It also shows that people who feel depressed or chronically stressed may have a greater risk of physical illnesses.

Need Support To Achieve your Goals?

We have experts who can walk alongside you, particularly if you're struggling with the following chronic conditions:

• ADHD
• Anxiety
• Bipolar Disorder
• Depression
• Substance Use

Find a Provider

When you work with a provider in our network, you save money. Search our network to find the psychiatrist, psychologist, psychiatric nurse, social worker or counselor who is right for you. 

Mental Health Resources Digital Resources

Take charge of your mental health. These two easy-to-use online care solutions are available at your fingertips, providing you convenience and privacy 24/7. Choose the program that best fits your behavioral health needs and sign up today.

Manage Anxiety and Depression with Meru Health**

If you have moderate to severe anxiety or depression, Meru Health’s 12-week program is proven to reduce symptoms long-term.

You’ll meet virtually with a licensed therapist, then begin the program via the app. The program has weekly themed mindfulness practices and behavioral techniques to help regulate emotions, improve sleep and enhance nutrition. You can chat daily with your therapist, get a referral to a psychiatrist if needed, receive a wearable biofeedback monitor to manage your body’s physical reaction to stress, and have access to anonymous peer support groups for encouragement. Everything is 100 percent confidential, and you will have lifetime access to in-app resources after completing the program.

Meru Health is a free resource for members. 

Manage your OCD with NOCD

If you struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), NOCD’s convenient resources are here to help you 24/7. NOCD’s program includes video-based OCD therapy and in-between session support, right from the NOCD smartphone app. Therapists are trained to appropriately treat OCD for all life stages from childhood through adulthood, using exposure and response therapy — the most effective OCD treatment. NOCD creates a custom treatment plan based on your OCD themes and subtypes. You will have access to peer communities, emergency support, treatment data and educational content. 

You will pay your benefit plan’s office co-payment or deductible for NOCD. Sign up for NOCD.

Opioid Resources

Our nation is in the midst of an unprecedented opioid epidemic. It's far-reaching and continues to infiltrate our communities, workplaces and lives.
We're committed to addressing the crisis in communities around the country while ensuring that patients get the right care in the right setting. Recovery is a team effort, and no one should feel isolated, or that they have to go through it alone.

Find additional information about opioids and opioid addiction.

How Else Can CBA Help?

CBA has more than a decade of experience in clinical and behavioral health benefits management. The staff includes board-certified psychiatrists, registered psychiatric nurses, licensed practical nurses, social workers and professional counselors, with a wide variety of clinical backgrounds. CBA can help make referrals to network health care professionals. You can get a higher level of coverage from a network provider than from someone outside the network.

The network has professionals within the state of South Carolina and across the country. It features board-certified psychiatrists and addictionologists. It also has licensed psychologists, social workers and professional counselors. All these health care professionals will file claims and get pre-certifications from CBA for your treatment.

CBA requires network professionals to follow the credentialing standards from the National Committee of Quality Assurance (NCQA). This independent, not-for-profit organization is dedicated to assessing and reporting on the quality of managed care plans.

If your employer has contracted for an employee assistance program (EAP), CBA will try to coordinate with that program for ongoing treatment for a behavioral health problem.

If you have questions, please call (800) 868-1032. You or your physician may call to get a referral.

_{*CBA is a separate company that manages behavioral health benefits, including mental health and substance abuse benefits, on behalf of BlueChoice HealthPlan.}

_{**Meru Health is an independent company that provides behavioral health services on behalf of BlueChoice HealthPlan.}