coordinating care across behavioral and medical services, case management to support onger term after a patient ends support after a patient ends treatment, ensuring appropriate, administrative and financial interaction between provider and plans which support the core functions of treatment and payment for hipaa-covered entities. mr. costello: also, conducting quality assessment to better integrate behavioral and medical services. this includes, mr. speaker, evaluating provider performance, conducting training programs, and accreditation, certification and credentialing activities. people with substance use disorder die on average decades sooner than other americans. this is largely because of a strikingly high incidents of poorly managed, co-occurring chronic diseases, including hiv-aids, cardiac conditions, lung disease, and cirrhosis. whatever we as a nation are doing to coordinate care for this highly vulnerable patient population is utterly failing by any reasonable measure. an extraordinary array of organizations, hospitals, physicians, patient advocates and substance use treat