Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model (CoCM)

In response to the growing problem of access and quality in behavioral health care, BCBSM developed an incentive program to explore potential solutions to integrating behavioral health into general care. The Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model’s (CoCM) aim is to improve quality, outcomes and access to care while also reducing cost and stigma.

In the Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model, the behavioral health care manager meets with the psychiatric consultant weekly and brings back the psychiatrist’s recommendations to the patient’s primary care physician who then decides whether to change the patient’s treatment for anxiety and/or depression. Current initiative and training efforts focus on Michigan providers and Patient-Centered Medical Home-designated practices, especially those participating in Provider-Delivered Care Management (PDCM).

Contact your practice resource team member for more information on bringing CoCM to your practice. Engage your patients in care management with complimentary marketing resources.

Get support with CoCM in your practice

Integrating behavioral health services can be expensive and challenging for primary care practices. The Physician Alliance has partnered with mindoula (formerly Janus Healthcare Partners) to help practices implement CoCM. Mindoula partners with private practices to improve patient care, and practice quality metrics and revenue.

Mindoula provides access to turnkey collaborative care services to support member practices in implementing the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM). They partner with private practices to extend the reach of primary care teams by providing Michigan-licensed clinical staff, a proprietary clinical platform, and a structured implementation roadmap.

Benefits of Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model to primary care practices include:

• Patient keeps relationship with primary care clinician as quarterback of care.
• Access to psychotherapy and psychiatric services as an extension of primary care.
• Reduced clinician burnout from having support of an integrated behavioral health team following evidence-based CoCM.
• Provides targeted interventions aimed at patients with multiple chronic conditions and unmet behavioral health needs.
• Service/interventions- delivered by care managers, supervised by a board-certified psychiatrist.
  

Contact Sam.Ramcharan@mindoula.com or Ben.Galina@mindoula.com to learn more about mindoula.