News & Updates

Upcoming Webinar: Registry Innovations in Collaborative Care

February 2023

Join the AIMS Center on April 18, 2023 to learn about registry innovations in Collaborative Care (CoCM). Utilization of registry tools is a vital component to successfully implementing Collaborative Care. This webinar will include an overview of important considerations when choosing a population-based registry tool, followed by a panelist discussion, and Q&A. Panelist will highlight the process their organizations underwent to implement a population-based registry tool that facilitates Collaborative Care at a patient and program level.

Sharing Behavioral Health Care Manager Responsibilities in Collaborative Care

January 2023

WATCH: Sharing the Responsibilities of the BHCM in CoCM Webinar, featuring panelists discussing how they set up their workflows, including the benefits, challenges, and lessons learned during the process. This is a continuation of our quarterly webinar series, a recording of the webinar can be found below, and slide handouts can be downloaded here.

Billing CoCM: Three Health Systems’ Experience

October 2022

WATCH: Webinar on Billing CoCM codes, featuring three health system panelists describing their CoCM billing workflows – including benefits, challenges, and lessons learned. This webinar kicked off our new quarterly webinar series, a recording of the webinar can be found below, and slide handouts can be downloaded here.

Anna Ratzliff CoCM Testimony to US Senate Committee on Finance

March 2022

The power of CoCM was testified to by Anna Ratzliff  before the US Senate Committee on Finance, highlighting its ability to leverage scarce psychiatric resources to treat a large number of patients in primary care and to get more patients better faster than usual primary care, even when usual care includes embedded psychotherapists.

Collaborative Care Eliminated Racial Disparities for Pregnant People

January 2022

A new study showed that Collaborative Care eliminated mental health care disparities between Black and white pregnant people. This study was presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s (SMFM) annual meeting; research suggests that implementation of the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) during pregnancy improves the screening and treatment of depression and reduces racial disparities.

Health Plans Promote Collaborative Care

November 2021
Two health plans share their experiences implementing Collaborative Care in a recent article in Psychiatric News. More than eighty published studies have shown that the Collaborative Care Model CoCM lowers the cost of care and results in better patient outcomes. While implementation of CoCM continues to gain momentum nationally, widescale implementation remains slow.

CoCM as Effective for Treating Bipolar Disorder & PTSD as Specialty Care

A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry shows that Collaborative Care (CoCM) for bipolar disorder and/or PTSD is just as effective as treatment provided by a psychiatrist and psychologist. Both Collaborative Care and specialty mental health care were delivered by telemedicine to patients in federally qualified health centers. As stated in the article, “Patients in both groups experienced large and clinically meaningful improvements from baseline to 12 months.”

Collaborative Care Rises to the Pandemic Challenge

February 2021

As the pandemic heightens the demand for mental healthcare, experts are pushing for the adoption of scalable, evidence-based integrated care models like Collaborative Care. An article in Psychiatric News states that "CoCM is the only model that bundles all integrated services - including the psychiatric case review and recommendations - and is reimbursed by insurance; it is also the model with the most extensive evidence base for improved outcomes."

New Resource: Developing Suicide Prevention Protocols

02/2021

This updated resource from the AIMS Center guides organizations through developing thoughtful and clear suicide prevention protocols in primary care settings. The document includes principles to consider, essential elements of a suicide prevention protocol, and supporting resources, toolkits, and handouts to aid staff and providers in their response plans. 

Implementation Support Substantially Improves Outcomes

November 2020

A new study published in Health Affairs collected data on depression outcomes from 135 primary care clinics with Collaborative Care programs. This study is the largest survey of Collaborative Care programs to date, and shows that clinics receiving ongoing implementation support, such as coaching from the AIMS Center, are almost twice as likely to achieve better depression outcomes. 

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