CollaborativeCare Alternative Payment Model for Behavioral Health
Lead Investigators: Michael G. Conner, PsyD, Michaele Dunlap, PsyD & Dave Johnson, MSW, ACSW
The CollaborativeCare model (Independent Practice Integrated Care - IPIC) is being developed by MRI in collaboration with AMHA-USA & AMHA-OR. The CollaborativeCare model is created in response to government-mandated changes to health care delivery, changes which impact the public, commercial payers and providers. It is being developed so that independent mental health professionals can participate more effectively in the evolving systems of mental health delivery.
Quality is defined within the “Triple Aim” of the Affordable Care Act as measures of (1) access, (2) improved group health and well-being and (3) management or containment of cost.
The model called “CollaborativeCare” was created by Mentor Research Institute to support the qualities initiatives of the triple aim.
IPA Practice Model Presented to New York State Psychological Association (2016)
Michael G Conner, PsyD
Saturday, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm: Special Presentation
Video Overview of Presentation
Formation of an Ethical, Lawful and Professional Independent Practice Association
Presenters: Michael Conner, PsyD, and Dave Johnson, MSW, ACSW
Michael Conner will demonstrate step by step how to build an ethical and legally structured Independent Practice Association in New York. The sole purpose of an Independent Practice Association is to create leverage with respect to negotiating reimbursement and fee-for-service rates with third party payers, while protecting our ability to professional and ethical services practices. Dr. Conner will provide examples of the architecture and is bringing business and financial software necessary to operate an IPA virtually. This includes a professional online referral directory, measurement, charting, coordinated care and the analytics technology necessary for a modern IPA and website which he built for New York Psychologists.
References
What is the Role of Patient Reported Outcome Measures in Mental Health?
Ethical Principles for Practice and Business Operation of Collaborative Mental Health Services
Conflicts and/or commercial interests disclosure statement
Michael Conner, PsyD
Michael Conner is an engineer who became a psychologist in 1995. Dr. Conner worked at Kaiser Permanente Oregon where he completed his post-doctoral Fellowship within Kaiser's graduate medical education program. While at Kaiser he spent 7 years in variety of settings including primary medical care, regional hospitals, emergency departments, health education, and three different integrated mental health clinics. Dr. Conner created the world’s first comprehensive online primary-care mental health screening, education and referral system while at Kaiser. Dr. Conner is the architect and designer of a high performance practice management system which includes charting, care coordination, outcome measurement and analytics; data capable of providing a practice-research level of mental health documentation for individual and group practices.
Dr. Conner is a Board member of Mentor Research Institute which created the CollaborativeCare model a “step-and-repeat” business and service delivery contracting model which can be implemented by mental health professionals who organize as Independent Practice Associations (IPAs). He has offered training on the topic of IPA’s at Oregon Psychological Association’s 2014 annual conference and to mental health professionals in four Oregon cities.
Dave Johnson, MSW, ACSW
Dave Johnson has more than 35 years’ experience as a senior administrator, clinician, and health services evaluator with more than 20 years' of focus on design, development, implementation and evaluation of bi-directional integrated care and service models. He served on the front lines of care as a child welfare worker and administrator for Adolescent Group Homes. His program and clinical development activities have included engagements with Primary Care Clinics, FQHCs, Community Mental Health Agencies and specialty services—HIV/AIDS, OB/GYN, ID/DD. Dave directed Anthem’s Medicaid Health Home initiatives in multiple states as well as designed, implemented, and evaluated an integrated care program in primary care/FQHC settings in eight states recognized as a best practice by the Institute for Medicaid Innovation 2016-2017. Dave’s successful grant writing experiences include having achieved awards of more than $7 million from Federal Agencies, State Agencies and Private Foundations.