Behavioral Health Business January 16, 2024
Primary care providers (PCPs) are often the first stop for patients when seeking behavioral health services.
Busy PCPs often lack the resources to integrate behavioral health services into their practices fully. But that may change as federal and state lawmakers advocate for more collaborative care models.
“Primary care is behavioral health,” Melissa Merrick, executive vice president of primary care services at the Southcentral Foundation, said during a Bipartisan Policy Center’s webinar last week. “So much of what comes into primary care is behavioral health-related not just your traditional mental health diagnoses, but sleep hygiene and health behavioral change.”
The Southcentral Foundation is a nonprofit health system that serves Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna...
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