Integrating Behavioral Health Into the Medical Home: A Rapid Implementation Guide

by Kent Corso, Christopher Hunter, Owen Dahl

Overview

Integrating Behavioral Health into the Medical Home: A Rapid Implementation Guide offers up-to-the-minute guidance on how to integrate behavioral health (BH) into primary care in a manner which is legal, profitable, clinically effective, time-efficient, and reflective of best practices.

 

A one-of-a-kind practical resource not available anywhere else, the distinguished authors present the facts here to help you make rapid and accurate decisions while integrating for the first time or improving your current integrated BH program. The book is geared toward practice leaders or anyone responsible for launching and overseeing a BH service.

Topics Include

• Why? Understand how healthcare delivery and population management must incorporate behavioral health, especially in the medical home
• Which service delivery model is the right fit for your organization? And how to roll-out a program system-wide
• Learn how to leverage integrated behavioral health services in the medical home to help you achieve the Triple Aim
• How to develop and organize your team and get buy-in from all stakeholders
• Personnel selection and training all staff to deliver team-based success
• How to shoot past business competitors who do not have these programs
• Sample business tools: policy samples; templates for business case analyses; surveys for your medical staff; sample pro formas, funding and program evaluation tools, and much more...
• Insider Tips: A step-by-step guide to achieve the ROI (Return on Investment) desired
• Clear Do's and Don'ts to improve financial and clinical outcomes
• Best Practices: Case Examples of outcomes and cost savings
• How to make these programs worth developing and sustaining... clinically and financially

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780996258470
Publisher:	American Association for Physician Leadership
Publication date:	01/01/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	204
File size:	25 MB
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About the Author

Kent A. Corso, PsyD, BCBA-D, is a licensed clinical health psychologist and board certified behavior analyst. As a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom, he is a former Air Force officer with 15 years of teaching and training experience in university and medical settings. Dr. Corso currently holds an adjunct assistant professor position in the Department of Family Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. He leads the primary care behavioral health program for the Military Health System in the Washington, D.C., region, which enrolls more than 137,000 beneficiaries. Dr. Corso is the president of NCR Behavioral Health, a consultation group that assists diverse healthcare delivery systems in the United States and abroad in the development of profitable, cost saving, quality-enhancing integrated behavioral health programs by leveraging population health principles, cutting-edge practice models, sound business strategies, and high-quality training.
Christopher L. Hunter, PhD, ABPP, graduated from the University of Memphis specializing in behavioral medicine. He is board certified in clinical health psychology and works for the Defense Health Agency as the Department of Defense (DoD) program manager for behavioral health in primary care. As the DoD lead for the last seven years, he has worked to develop policy, secure funding, and oversee the rollout of primary care behavioral health services for 3.3 million Military Health System enrollees. He is a previous chair for the Society of Behavioral Medicine's integrated primary care special interest group and is a Collaborative Family Health Care Association board member. He has extensive experience developing integrated primary care behavioral health services as well as training individuals to work in primary care settings to treat common mental health conditions (e.g., depression), health behavior problems (e.g., tobacco use, obesity) and chronic medical conditions (e.g., diabetes, chronic pain). He is also the lead author on the 2009 book, Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care: Step-by-Step Guidance for Assessment and Intervention and a co-editor of the 2014 Handbook of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings: Evidence-based Assessment and Intervention.
Owen Dahl, MBA, FACHE, CHBC, LSSMBB, has been active in healthcare management for almost 50 years. He received his bachelor's degree from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, where he was a member of the first graduating class in the hospital administration program. He received his master's degree from the University of Northern Colorado and has done additional study at NOVA Southeastern in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida He spent more than a decade as a hospital administrator in various facilities in South Dakota. He also served in the United States Air Force and the Army National Guard. His move to New Orleans in 1983 brought a major career change. He started a practice management and billing company, which grew to manage 65 physicians in 11 different practices. In 1993, he advanced to Fellow in the American College of Health Care Executives with a paper on Total Quality Management and its application to the medical practice. Hurricane Katrina brought about another change that led to his current efforts as an author, consultant, public speaker, and adjunct professor. He has worked with Loyola University in New Orleans, the University of New Orleans, the Louisiana State University School of Medicine, and the University of Houston-Clear Lake on physician practice management programs. This change came about due to a long-standing passion to seek to improve the delivery of patient care through training and education. He developed the first certification program for the Professional Association of Health Care Office Managers (PAHCOM) and the certification program for the National Society of Certified Health Care Business Consultants (NSCHBC). Currently an independent consultant with an affiliation with the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), he has developed training programs in various "belt" levels in Lean Six Sigma and the application to today's medical practice. Mr. Dahl is married with three children and two grandchildren. He currently resides in The Woodlands, Texas.