The Biggest Challenge To Integration? The Answer May Surprise You

I had the opportunity last month to present a web briefing with Don Fowls, M.D. for the PsychU membership on integrated care for consumers in the serious mental illness (SMI) category. The online session, “Managing & Financing Specialty Health Plans For The SMI Population,” covered the interest in integrated-care coordination models to better meet the requirements of high-needs consumers — and the demand for value-based reimbursement to facilitate these models (or at least eliminate reimbursement as an impediment . . .