Path forward News

By Meg Wingerter

Colorado’s Medicaid program will start paying for the behind-the-scenes work of treating people with mental health conditions and addictions in their primary care offices, which providers hope will lead to more patients getting the help they need.

By Guiliana Grossi

The CoCM is available in all 50 states and has been shown to reduce depression recovery times 7-fold and improve patient outcomes through a collaborative team led by primary care providers and supported by behavioral health care managers and psychiatric consultants.

By Connie Matthiessen

Collaborative care, a team-based approach to mental healthcare, has a cult following among some healthcare experts — but many people have never heard of it. The name is clunky but the approach is simple: The model integrates mental health and substance use disorder screening and treatment into primary care, so patients can receive support at their routine doctor’s appointment. 

By Chris Larson

A new study by Milliman details explosive early growth of the collaborative care model, an integration of behavioral health services into the primary care setting.

By Anna Bobb, Dr. Mason Turner and Minjia Yan

xplore Nevada’s mental health landscape as Will Rucker and Ciara Owens discuss the state’s last-place ranking in mental health access with Anna Bobb, MPH, Executive Director of the Path Forward coalition and Dr. Mason Turner from Intermountain Health.

By Maya Goldman

Insurers increasingly are paying for behavioral health services that are delivered in coordination with primary care, according to a new claims analysis from Milliman.

By Rylee Wilson

The Collaborative Care Model was developed in the 1990s, but was not formally recognized as a reimbursable service by CMS until 2018. The approach is designed to integrate mental health services into primary and specialty care.

By Justin P. Hicks

“The collaborative care model is the gold standard for delivering mental health in primary care settings because mental health is, at its core, simply a very important part of health,” said Andy Keller, president and CEO of the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, which commissioned the study.

By Holland & Knight

The Connecting Our Medical Providers with Links to Expand Tailored and Effective Care Act (COMPLETE Care Act) was referred to the Senate Committee on Finance. The legislation, if included in a healthcare package later in the year, aims to improve behavioral health access by increasing Medicare mental health payments…

By Anna Bobb

The depression that stole Leon Statz propelled Brenda to do everything she could to help give other families a fighting chance. The rest of us should do no less. 

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Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced bipartisan legislation that would allow health-care providers to integrate mental health and substance use disorder care into their practices. The bill aims to improve access to mental health and substance use disorder care by incentivizing the take up in Medicare of a type of integrated […]

By Connie Matthiessen

Earlier this week, as U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy made a remarkable call to add mental health warning labels to social media apps, he deemed the youth mental health crisis “the defining issue of our time.”