Behavioral Health Business March 27, 2024
Virtual pediatric behavioral health care company Fort Health will soon integrate with more than 450 primary care providers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Fort partnered with Advocare, a provider group practice with 750 providers based in New Jersey, to address difficulties associated with a severe shortage of practicing child and adolescent psychiatrists. The company developed a collaborative care model through which Fort clinicians work alongside the child’s pediatrician as part of a care team.
“[Collaborative care] is not only clinically more effective in terms of remission rates, especially for depression and anxiety but is also more cost-effective in terms of overall medical costs, which is why payers like it,” Natalie Schneider, CEO of Fort Health, told Behavioral Health Business. “Additionally,...
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