TY - JOUR
KW - Aged
KW - Attitude of Health Personnel
KW - Community Mental Health Services/economics/organization & administration
KW - Comorbidity
KW - Delivery of Health Care, Integrated/economics/organization & administration
KW - Depressive Disorder/therapy
KW - Health Maintenance Organizations/economics/organization & administration/standards
KW - Health Services Accessibility
KW - Home Care Services
KW - Humans
KW - Mental Disorders/economics/therapy
KW - Models, Organizational
KW - Organizational Case Studies
KW - Primary Health Care/economics/organization & administration
KW - Program Development/economics/standards
KW - Psychotherapy
KW - Reimbursement Mechanisms/organization & administration/standards
KW - Treatment Outcome
KW - United States
KW - United States Department of Veterans Affairs
AU - R. G. Kathol
AU - M. Butler
AU - D. D. McAlpine
AU - R. L. Kane
A1 - 
AB - OBJECTIVE: To assess pragmatic challenges faced when implementing, delivering, and sustaining models of integrated mental health intervention in primary care settings. Thirty percent of primary care patients with chronic medical conditions and up to 80% of those with health complexity have mental health comorbidity, yet primary care clinics rarely include onsite mental health professionals and only one in eight patients receive evidence-based mental health treatment. Integrating specialty mental health into primary care improves outcomes for patients with common disorders, such as depression. METHODS: We used key informant interviews documenting barriers to implementation and components that inhibited or enhanced operational success at 11 nationally established integrated physical and mental condition primary care programs. RESULTS: All but one key informant indicated that the greatest barrier to the creation and sustainability of integrated mental condition care in primary care settings was financial challenges introduced by segregated physical and mental health reimbursement practices. For integrated physical and mental health program initiation and outcome changing care to be successful, key components included a clinical and administrative champion-led culture shift, which valued an outcome orientation; cross-disciplinary training and accountability; use of care managers; consolidated clinical record systems; a multidisease, total population focus; and active, respectful coordination of colocated interdisciplinary clinical services. CONCLUSIONS: Correction of disparate physical and mental health reimbursement practices is an important activity in the development of sustainable integrated physical and mental condition care in primary care settings, such as a medical home. Multiple clinical, administrative, and economic factors contribute to operational success.
BT - Psychosomatic medicine
C5 - Education & Workforce; Financing & Sustainability; Key & Foundational; Medical Home
CP - 6
CY - United States
DO - 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181e2c4a0
IS - 6
JF - Psychosomatic medicine
N2 - OBJECTIVE: To assess pragmatic challenges faced when implementing, delivering, and sustaining models of integrated mental health intervention in primary care settings. Thirty percent of primary care patients with chronic medical conditions and up to 80% of those with health complexity have mental health comorbidity, yet primary care clinics rarely include onsite mental health professionals and only one in eight patients receive evidence-based mental health treatment. Integrating specialty mental health into primary care improves outcomes for patients with common disorders, such as depression. METHODS: We used key informant interviews documenting barriers to implementation and components that inhibited or enhanced operational success at 11 nationally established integrated physical and mental condition primary care programs. RESULTS: All but one key informant indicated that the greatest barrier to the creation and sustainability of integrated mental condition care in primary care settings was financial challenges introduced by segregated physical and mental health reimbursement practices. For integrated physical and mental health program initiation and outcome changing care to be successful, key components included a clinical and administrative champion-led culture shift, which valued an outcome orientation; cross-disciplinary training and accountability; use of care managers; consolidated clinical record systems; a multidisease, total population focus; and active, respectful coordination of colocated interdisciplinary clinical services. CONCLUSIONS: Correction of disparate physical and mental health reimbursement practices is an important activity in the development of sustainable integrated physical and mental condition care in primary care settings, such as a medical home. Multiple clinical, administrative, and economic factors contribute to operational success.
PP - United States
PY - 2010
SN - 1534-7796; 0033-3174
SP - 511
EP - 518
EP - 
T1 - Barriers to physical and mental condition integrated service delivery
T2 - Psychosomatic medicine
TI - Barriers to physical and mental condition integrated service delivery
U1 - Education & Workforce; Financing & Sustainability; Key & Foundational; Medical Home
U2 - 20498293
U3 - 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181e2c4a0
VL - 72
VO - 1534-7796; 0033-3174
Y1 - 2010
ER -