Collaborative Care Model for Patients
What is Collaborative Care?
For Patients – Self-referral for Collaborative Care
Contact Us to Learn More
Welcome to Animo Sano Psychiatry. We are a team of dedicated professionals who are committed to helping you live your best life. We understand that seeking behavioral health help can be challenging.
That’s why our mission is to be the best-in-class provider of high-quality and accessible behavioral health care.
Our collaborative care model, which practically means behavioral health care in a primary care setting, directly supports our mission for accessible patient care.
Would you be interested in receiving your behavioral health care through your primary care provider?
If so, please fill out the information below. This will give us consent to contact your primary care
provider about providing collaborative care services for you.
Insurances Known to Cover Collaborative Care*
Collaborative Care is:
- A behavioral health care intervention with a team-based approach
- It connects care between primary care providers, behavioral health specialists, and patients
- Uses treatments proven to be successful
- Proven to be effective in improving patients’ behavioral and overall health
What is Collaborative Care?
How can this program help me?
The Purpose is to:
- Increase access to behavioral health treatments
- Improve patient outcomes
- Increase patient satisfaction
- Increase physician satisfaction
- Reduce health care cost
The Collaborative Care Team:
- Patient
- Primary Care Provider
- Psychiatric Specialist
- Behavioral Health Care Manager
What should I expect when enrolled in the ASP-CoCM program?
How can this program help me?
How can this program help me?
This program provides behavioral health care needs in the primary care setting:
- Increasing access to care
- Reducing wait times
- Increasing follow-up encounters utilizing an experienced and dedicated behavioral health care manager.
- Ensuring the highest quality of behavioral health care with the consultation of expert psychiatric practitioners.
- Proven in studies to improve behavioral and overall health.
What should I expect when enrolled in the ASP-CoCM program?
- You will engage with your primary care provider for treatment and the behavioral health care manager for follow ups.
- You may engage with a psychiatric specialist when needed, but this is not required as part of the program.
- There will be several check in points to make sure that treatment is effective and to make changes to the treatment plan when needed.
- Enrollment in the program varies in length depending on the response to treatment.
What should I expect when enrolled in the ASP-CoCM program?
How much does this cost?
How much does this cost?
- Your cost for enrollment is free.
- Your cost for primary care visits will follow your expected co-payments and may vary depending on insurance.
- Your cost for care management follow-ups can vary but often are similar to your primary care or specialist co-payments.
- The behavioral health care manager can help assist you with further financial questions.
Let’s Get Started With The Collaborative Care Model
For any further questions please contact: Jennifer Street, MMCi, BSN
Let’s Get Started With The Collaborative Care Model
*Disclaimer: We would need to check your specific plan to confirm coverage.
