Specifically designed for the management of behavioral health problems in primary care.

Hospital Center

The Need:

  • Behavioral health problems, including mood and anxiety disorders and risky health conditions like cigarette smoking, obesity, loneliness and alcohol and drug use disorders, are the leading drivers of disability, premature death, and healthcare costs in the United States
  • Most patients seek help for these problems from their primary care providers
  • However, there are unique challenges to managing these problems in primary care settings
  • Primary care providers lack the time, training, skills, and supportive resources, such as access to appropriately trained behavioral health providers, to effectively manage these problems
  • For a variety of reasons patients seen for behavioral health problems in Primary Care are often different than those managed in behavioral healthcare settings and typically do not respond as well to traditional evidence based treatments like antidepressant medications and referrals for psychotherapy

Hospital Center

The Solution:

  • Designed by experts in the management of behavioral health problems in primary care
  • Addresses the specific needs, perceptions, and preferences of primary care patients with behavioral health problems
  • Addresses the specific needs, concerns and desires of primary care provider
  • Offers a variety of evidence-based approaches that enable patients, therapists, psychiatrists, and primary care providers to effectively work together to manage the full range of behavioral health problems seen in primary care

CollaborationCare has been designed for primary care practices that:

  • Are interested in integrating behavioral health specialists into their practice  but don’t have the space, money, time or expertise to do so
  • Already have an integrated behavioral health clinician but don’t have the capacity to do behavioral health coaching, track outcomes and provide counseling for the full range of behavioral health problems they see.

Virtual HealthCare

Integrate virtual behavioral health into your primary care practice.

Generate Revenue for Your Practice
Maximize Reimbursement for the Care You Deliver.
Improve Outcomes for Your Patients
Use a proven, patient-centered, multi-modal teletherapy.
Save Time Through Care Coordination
Provide virtual behavioral health coaching and care coordination.

The Collaborative Care Program.

For patients with a mood or anxiety disorder
Based on the Collaborative Care Model, which has been shown to improve outcomes, control costs and increase patient satisfaction in a wide variety of primary care settings.
The program consists of:

1) Monthly scripted video sessions with a coach, who is a licensed   therapist
2) Weekly structured email/text check-ins, completed by the patient with review and response by the patient’s coach
3) Psychiatric consultations for complex patients and those who are not  improving as expected
4) Patient app with self-management materials, care plans and outcomes

The Teletherapy Program.

For patients with a mood or anxiety disorder
Based on the Collaborative Care Model, which has been shown to improve outcomes, control costs and increase patient satisfaction in a wide variety of primary care settings.
The program consists of:

1) Monthly scripted video sessions with a coach, who is a licensed   therapist
2) Weekly structured email/text check-ins, completed by the patient with review and response by the patient’s coach
3) Psychiatric consultations for complex patients and those who are not  improving as expected
4) Patient app with self-management materials, care plans and outcomes

Collaboration Care can generate revenue for PCP practices.

Collaboration Care can generate revenue for PCP practices

Collaboration Care is supported by revenue from a variety codes that most PCPs are not currently billing for. These codes are covered by Medicare, most commercial payers and a growing number of state Medicaid programs. Depending on the code, this new revenue will be split with the primary care practice.

The Patient Self-Management Program.

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Collaboration Care can save time by:

Collaboration Care can generate revenue for PCP practices

Screening patients for depression and other behavioral health problems
Performing comprehensive assessments on those who screen positive
Providing behavioral health coaching and counseling
Consulting with a psychiatrist on complex patients and those who are not improving as expected
Increasing access to teletherapy
Tracking outcomes
Sending regular PCP feedback reports which can be pushed into your EMR

Collaboration Care can improve outcomes for patients:

Collaboration Care is based on four evidence based approaches to managing common behavioral health problems in Primary Care. These include:

The Collaborative Care Model
Motivational Interviewing
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
The Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program


Each of these approaches have been shown to improve a variety of clinical outcomes in Primary Care patients with behavioral health problems  

Our behavioral health coaches can also provide an innovative approach to short-term teletherapy which enables patients to choose the types of issues they feel will be most helpful for them to work on from a selection of 10 therapy modules. We have shown that this  patient-centered multi-modular therapy program appears to be more effective than a  usual care control group of depressed primary care patients as well as those who received therapy which focused on just behavioral activation.

Collaboration Health

Services

We offer personalized patient programs that increase practice revenue.

Generate Revenue for Your Practice

Maximize reimbursement for the care you deliver.

Improve Outcomes for Your Patients

Use a proven, patient-centered, multi-modal teletherapy.

Save Time Through Care Coordination

Full spectrum of behavioral health care, integrated with your EHR

Evidence Based

Proven Collaborative Care Model with motivational interviewing

Comprehensive Program

Screenings through outcomes tracking and billing support

Designed for the Primary Care Practice

Designed by experts to meet the unique needs of the primary care patient

It's Personal

Inspired by the Collaborative Care Model.

Designed by mental health specialists. Backed by cutting-edge technology.

Our behavioral health coaches can also provide an innovative approach to short-term teletherapy which enables patients to choose the types of issues they feel will be most helpful for them to work on from a selection of 10 therapy modules. We have shown that this  patient-centered multi-modular therapy program appears to be more effective than a  usual care control group of depressed primary care patients as well as those who received therapy which focused on just behavioral activation.

About Us.

David Brody
Chief Medical Officer

David is a General Internist who has been the Chief of General Internal Medicine and a Professor of Medicine at several medical schools. He has published numerous papers on the management of mental health problems in primary care and was an editor of Psychiatry for Primary Care Physicians (editions 1 and 2) published by the American Medical Association Press. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation among others. David has been a member of numerous NIMH grant review committees and has received several prestigious awards including being named an American College of Physicians Teaching and Research Scholar and a Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation Scholar in General Internal Medicine.

Jonathan Wilson
Los Angeles Customer

Jeanette Waxmonsky Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist, Advisory Board Member

Jeanette is a nationally recognized expert on the development, implementation and evaluation ofinnovative integrated behavioral health services for a variety of patient populations. She is one of thedevelopers of the widely adopted Integrated Care Practice Assessment Tool (IPAT). Jeanette hasbeen an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Schoolof Medicine, a Vice President of Integrated Care, Product Development at New DirectionsBehavioral Health and Director of Research Innovation at the Jefferson Center for Mental Health.

Jonathan Wilson
Los Angeles Customer

Kirstan Vandersluis
Founder & CEO, Connetix Health

Kirstan Vandersluis, is the Founder and CEO of Connetix Health, the company supplying the technology solution for CollaborationCare. He is a longtime digital health solutions and interoperability expert, holds computer science degrees from the University of Michigan and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and earned a certificate in Health Informatics from Johns Hopkins University. Kirstan has been a principal supplier of solutions for healthcare and digital health organizations including Kaiser Permanente, University of Michigan Health Services, HealthRx, The Center for Medical Interoperability, Emergency Medicine Risk Management, and others. Kirstan has patented technologies and has patents pending in data management, interoperability, and digital health, and brings an innovative approach to collaborative care, patient activation, and integrated behavioral healthcare.

Jonathan Wilson
Los Angeles Customer

Catherine Le Roi

As a seasoned change practitioner, Catherine is focused on putting the customer first, leveraging best practices, and ensuring continuous improvement activities are not done in a vacuum. Catherine has over 20 years of experience in Medical Devices, Software and Services working in both small and large companies in America and Europe. Catherine holds a BA Hons from Exeter University, England and a MS in Marketing and Information Systems from the University of Colorado-Boulder. She is a certified black belt in Six Sigma and Lean Sigma. She originally came to the US as an International Rotary Scholar in the role of a Goodwill Ambassador.

Jonathan Wilson
Los Angeles Customer

Pamela DeBellis

As a recognized champion and driver of new ventures, Pam has designed, developed and launched numerous healthcare products exceeding $100m in collective sales revenue. She has worked in pivotal roles with several companies that have been acquired and holds five U.S. and international patents on medical devices. She has worked globally with Medtronic, Sunrise Medical, Boston Scientific, Philips HealthTech, Intuitive Surgical, Global Healthcare Exchange, Amazon Web Services, ActiViews, Encision Inc. and Radish Systems in many leadership and executive positions. She has been quoted in numerous publications about innovation, diversity, and customer experience. Pam holds a M. Eng. Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado - Boulder and a B.S. Ceramic Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.

Jonathan Wilson
Los Angeles Customer

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