April Health reports that the Collaborative Care Model effectively addresses the mental health gap in rural America by ...

For many years, primary care providers had no direct or explicit mechanism to be reimbursed for services specifically provided to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries under the collaborative care model ...

Collaborative care for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) may deliver greater health gains at lower cost than the antiamyloid drug lecanemab when implemented nationwide, results of a new cost-effectiveness ...

Modest spending on integrated mental health services in primary care, facilitated by use of new collaborative care billing codes, did not increase overall health care costs. Objectives: The ...

On February 5, 2015, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Population Health Improvement hosted a workshop to explore the relationship between public health and health care, including ...

ThedaCare, a four hospital community health system based in Appleton, Wisc., is a leading healthcare delivery system and is nationally recognized for its continual process improvement efforts. The ...

There is still a clear need for high-quality, evidence-based behavioral health care in the United States and one way to get there is through innovative payment models, including value-based care ...

The authors drafted a “Shared Values of Collaborative Care” document with fundamental principles to make better group decisions in implementing collaborative care. We established core principles of ...

In the midst of the perfect storm in senior care—complex patients, high expectations, tight budgets and limited infrastructure—the need for effective collaboration is more critical than ever. That ...

One of the most pressing challenges in today’s healthcare landscape is the growing demand for primary and specialized care amid persistent provider shortages. Independent nurse practitioners (NPs) ...