Behavioral Health Integration into Primary Care: a Microsimulation of Financial Implications for Practices.

ABSTRACT:

Background

New payments from Medicare encourage behavioral health services to be integrated into primary care practice activities.

Objective

To evaluate the financial impact for primary care practices of integrating behavioral health services.

Design

Microsimulation model.

Participants

We simulated patients and providers at federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), non-FQHCs in urban and rural high-poverty areas, and practices outside of high-poverty areas surveyed by the National Association of Community Health Centers, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, and National Health Interview Survey.

Interventions

A collaborative care model (CoCM), involving telephone-based follow-up from a behaviorist ca

SUBMITTER: Basu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5698230 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature