For years, mental healthcare and primary care were independent of each other. If you visited a primary healthcare provider with mental illness symptoms, they'd refer you to a mental healthcare ...

The use of a physician-pharmacist collaborative care plan to manage lipid control in patients with high cholesterol does not have significant clinical impact, found an article in CMAJ (Canadian ...

Existing conventional treatments and the current model of care do not adequately address the complex challenges of mental illness Available conventional treatments and the dominant model of mental ...

Randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that the collaborative care model for depression in primary care is more effective than usual care, but little is known about the effectiveness of this ...

Unfortunately, the agency fell short in providing explicit guidance to state Medicaid programs around collaborative care and the codes. This has resulted in mixed messages and continued uncertainty on ...