Webinar Recording Available! Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health

Mental Health conditions including mental illness, and substance abuse have become a prevalent issue in this country affecting at least 18% of US adults. Most behavioral health services begin in primary care settings, however traditional reimbursement models are poorly supportive of models that integrate Primary Care and Mental Health, which hinders physician care.   Dr. Bruce Landon, and Dr. Russell Phillips from Harvard Medical School offered their approaches which included two Medicare Payment models entitled the Collaborative Care Model, and the Care Behaviorist Model. Also, Dr. James Schuster of University of Pittsburg Medical Center gave an overview of the Behavioral Health Home Plus (BHHP) Model as well as outlined the programs outcomes in 39 different counties of Pennsylvania. Lastly, James Kingsland of the London-based Nation Association of Primary Care offered his reactions and raised thought provoking questions to the participating panelists. The webinar was moderated by Robert Dribbon, who represents Merck and is PCPCC’s Executive Member Liaison. 

Bruce Landon, MD

Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Bruce E. Landon, MD, MBA, MSc, is a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School and a professor of medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He practices internal medicine at BIDMC.   read more

James Schuster, MD, MBA

VP of Behavioral Integration and the Chief Medical Officer for Behavioral and Medicaid Services , UPMC Insurance Services Division
James Schuster, MD, MBA is the Associate Chief Medical Officer and the Senior VP for Medical and Behavioral Services for the UPMC Insurance Division where he has served in leadership roles for over 2 decades. He has led teams based at the UPMC Center for High Value Healthcare that have secured several awards from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute and other funders focused on integrated care, shared decision making, and medication assisted treatment. In September 2020 he was appointed to the PCORI Board of Governors. Dr. Schuster completed his medical education at the University of Louisville, his residency in psychiatry and MBA at the University of Pittsburgh and is a Clinical Professor in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry. read more

Robert Dribbon

Strategy and Innovation, Merck
Executive Committee Liaison to the Board of Directors of the Primary Care Collaborative  read more

Russell Phillips, MD

Director , Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
Russell S. Phillips, MD, is Director of the Center for Primary Care and the William Applebaum Professor of Medicine and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is a devoted primary care general internist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center(BIDMC) where he cares for more than 250 patients, many of whom he has known for more than 20 years. Within the Center, he leads programs that are transforming education and care systems, developing entirely new approaches to improving primary care and health, and performing research on high performing health systems and practices, and the impact of changes in payment and primary care practice structure on the finances of primary care practices. read more
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