Alaska To Support Practice Transformation To Integrate Primary & Behavioral Health

The Alaska Department of Health, Division of Behavioral Health (DBH) is planning to help three primary care provider organizations offer integrated mental health and addiction treatment services via the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM). The selected primary care provider organizations will be awarded grants of up to $270,000 each per year for a 4.5-year period to develop the staffing and systems needed to implement the CoCM.

CoCM focuses on defined consumer populations who are tracked in a registry to monitor treatment progression. The treatment plan focuses on measurement-based treatment to target and to ensure the consumer’s . . .