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Payment Reform - Behavioral Health Services and Bundled Payments:
The PCPCC Letter to the Senate Finance Committee Stresses Mental Health in Primary Care |
The Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative is probably the leading non-governmental think tank and advocacy organization for the Patient Centered Medical Home. It is made up of representatives from all the major stakeholder groups: large employers, health plans, health systems, primary care physician, nursing and physicians' assistant guild groups, major behavioral health guild groups, many interested individuals and representatives from federal and state health and mental health authorities.
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CIPC Faculty Collaborate In Study on Behavioral Health Referrals and Treatment Initiation |
Though we have increasing evidence about the effectiveness and cost savings of well designed programs integrating behavioral health into primary care, we have often overlooked a more basic study that is crucial to any claim that integration improves access to care. There are plenty of studies that show terrible rates Read More |
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New Research on Estimating Behavioral Health Staff Needs |
Biomed Central, an open access research publisher, recently published an article by Burke et al on a detailed approach to estimating the behavioral health staff needs of FQHCs. The authors used health center staffing data and behavioral health service usage to estimate the number of patients age 12 and older likely to benefit from BH care,
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New Tool Helps Identify and Assess Measures of Integrated Behavioral Health Care |
A new Atlas of Integrated Behavioral Health Care Quality Measures (IBHC Measures Atlas) can help primary care organizations or researchers assess efforts to integrate behavioral health care. Developed by the AHRQ Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care, the IBHC Measures Atlas features nine core measures Read More |
Best Way to Get a Job in Primary Care Behavioral Health |
The National Psychologist, a trade newspaper for psychologists, has an article in its November edition saying the there are likely to be a large number of jobs in primary care just down the road for psychologists (and also, we should add, for social workers and other masters level clinicians). Read More
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