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Integrated Care: Where’s this going? Why?. IBHP Grantee Convocation Sacramento, CA September 12, 2008 Frank deGruy. Definitions. Integrated Combining dissimilar things into a coherent whole that has meaning and value Behavioral Health Mental disorders Substance use problems
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Integrated Care:Where’s this going? Why? IBHP Grantee Convocation Sacramento, CA September 12, 2008 Frank deGruy
Definitions • Integrated • Combining dissimilar things into a coherent whole that has meaning and value • Behavioral Health • Mental disorders • Substance use problems • Health behavior change
Where Did This Come From? • Mental Health Services Research • NIMH • AHRQ • RWJ • MacArthur • Substance Use and Criminality • Quality Improvement • Clinical Decisionmaking and EBM • PBRNs
Progress In Methods, 1 • Basic Design Issues • Efficacy to effectiveness • Heterogeneous study samples • Usual Care control groups • Multilevel interventions • Multilevel and mixed methods evaluations • Stepped Care • Multistep interventions • QI “Research” • PBRN methods
Progress In Methods, 2 • Economic analyses • Direct and Indirect Costs • Cost Offset • Cost Effectiveness • Cost Benefit • Chronic Disease Management • Registry • Self management • Care manager • Care protocol • Objective outcome measurement
What Have We Learned? 1 • Prevalence and nature of the problems • Depression & impairment, then the others • Comorbidity • Adequacy of treatment • Health behavior change • Nature of primary care practices • Patients are reluctant to fragment care • Practices are overwhelmed: competing demands • Systemic nature of practice • Easier to change than to sustain
What Have We Learned? 2 • Nature of the partners • Strange environment, different assumptions • Different work styles • Not used well • Teamwork: new layer of overhead • Nature of supporting systems • Commodification of clinicians and practices • Carveouts • More difficult to change • Different priorities, incentives (incentives!)
The Medical Home • What is it? • Probable defining context • Behavioral/mental health integration at risk for marginalization • Mandate for MH resources to serve multiple purposes • Learn DM, Asthma, CAD literature • Comorbidity
Today’s Problems • System Issues • Carveouts • Reimbursement rules & productivity incentives • Benefits design • How to deal with carveouts • Who pays for care managers? Specialty consultants? • Who “owns” them? Where do they live?
Design Issues • Pilot Mentality • Running assessment • Midcourse corrections • Emphasis on teamwork • Vertical Integration