The Intensive Psychiatric Team: A Service Model Paradigm for the Disease Management Era

OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry Analysis "Disease management" is an approach to care that seems to be resonating with public and private payers these days. If you look at the disease management paradigm as the successor of the managed care paradigm, it appears to make the statement that we're moving from managing the care for all to managing care for the most ill (or at least the most costly). Given that, it is time for our field to consider that the private practice of psychiatry may need similar retooling. My proposal is that . . .