Make ‘Whole Person’ Work Through Creative Financing

The challenge is extraordinarily difficult: sustaining a program model that provides for consumers across the spectrum of behavioral, medical, and social care needs. Health care is experiencing growing interest in developing whole person care approaches and delivering these through integrated systems (see Roadmap To Whole Person Health). Unfortunately, the current reimbursement models do not support these approaches. (For a look at a model for estimating whole person care management costs, check out our recent briefing, $60 pmpm.)

Pulling together the resources for a wraparound approach for at-risk adolescents with a broad range of needs is particularly daunting. Some good . . .