The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have an updated fact sheet detailing codes that can be used to bill for behavioral health integration (BHI) and Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) services.
A guide to building a clinical team and developing an effective clinical workflow.
Five reasons why Collaborative Care is beneficial to Primary Care Providers (PCPs) and their patients.
The Visual Answer Aid is administered alongside PHQ-9 and acts as a visual representation of the answers.
An outline of what a Behavioral Health Care Manager should be prepared to discuss about a patient with a Psychiatric Consultant during a consultation.
Primary care providers (PCP) identify and engage patients in collaborative care, make diagnoses, and treat patients. This handout describes the role of the PCP in more detail.
This two page handout summarizes the AMA CPT codes for Behavioral Health Integration services.
A checklist of the core principles and components of effective integrated behavioral health.
The purpose of a relapse prevention plan is to help the patient understand their own personal warning signs. These warning signs are specific to each person and can help the patient identify when their mental health is declining so they can get help sooner – before the symptoms get bad. The other purpose of a …
The Visual Answer Aid is administered alongside PHQ-9 and acts as a visual representation of the answers.
These guidelines will help Behavioral Health Care Managers approximate the size of their caseload based on the complexity of the clinic’s population.
The Generalized Anxiety Disorder subscale of the Patient Health Questionnaire (GAD-7) is a quick and easy tool to help identify patients with anxiety and monitor treatment response.
A comprehensive list of the duties and responsibilities required of a Behavioral Health Care Manager.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published final rules that allow Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) to bill for Behavioral Health Integration services, Chronic Care Management, and the Collaborative Care Model.
The PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) is a 20-item self-report measure that assesses DSM-5 symptoms of PTSD. This measure was developed by staff at the Veterans Affairs (VA) National Center for PTSD. It is free for qualified health professionals and researchers to use.