Collaborative Care Model
What is Collaborative Care?
Collaborative Care is:
- An evidence-based multicomponent intervention designed to provide behavioral health care treatment to patients in the primary care setting
- Allows for integrative care between primary care providers, care managers, behavioral health specialists, and patients
- Provides a patient centered and team-based approach to behavioral health treatment
- Proven to be effective in improving patients behavioral health and medical outcomes, while reducing the overall cost of care to patients
Purpose is to:
- Increases access to evidence-based behavioral health treatments
- Improve patient outcomes
- Increase patient satisfaction
- Increases physician satisfaction
- Reduce health care cost
- To assist PCPs in providing behavioral health care treatments to patients
How can ASP-CCM help a primary care practice:
- Tracks and demonstrates improvement in your patients’ clinical outcomes
- Provides reliable psychiatric expertise and support to all physicians in the practice
- Will reduce the number of visits a patient needs to come in for behavioral health problems
- Reduces the number of patients needing to be referred to psychiatry for direct patient care
- Improves patient health outcomes
- Improves patient satisfaction
- Improves physician satisfaction
- Reduces physician burnout and turnover
- Reduces healthcare cost
What are the primary care clinic’s responsibilities when engaging with the ASP-CCM:
- Screen ALL patients for depression and anxiety with the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 screening tools
- Refer appropriate patients with a positive screen to the ASP-CCM program
- Provide behavioral health treatments as recommended and decided amongst the team
- Engage with the behavioral health care managers about active patients
- See patients for follow up care in a timely manner while they are active in the ASP-CCM program
- Contact Animo Sano Psychiatry for support
- Bill collaborative care codes to appropriate prayers for patient care time
Monitoring & follow up
Accepted Insurance Plans
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