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Patient Centered Medical Homes

Apply Quality Enhancing and Cost Saving Models of Onsite Mental Condition Treatment in Patient-Centered Medical Homes and Multispecialty Medical Group Practices

In the current health environment, mental condition services are either not available for patients of medical practitioners or there are long delays in getting initial or follow-up appointments. Onsite mental health services are virtually nonexistent. This is a critical area of needed improvement if patient-centered medical homes and/or multispecialty medical groups are going to be able to effectively add value through chronic illness outcome stabilization and service use reduction in patients with concurrent mental health problems.

If one or more of these describes your situation...

• You have chronically ill or complex medical patients with concurrent untreated or ineffectively treated mental health issues
• Untreated mental health issues in your patients is associated with medical treatment non-response or poor adherence to recommended physical health care
• There is no direct or delayed access to mental condition professionals for patients seen in your medical practices
• Addition of mental health professionals in the medical setting is associated with cost overrides
• Mental health professionals seeing your patients do not communicate about the mental health problems or their treatment of your patients

...Ways that Cartesian Solutions, Inc.™ can help

• By exploring cost effective ways in your reimbursement environment to introduce onsite value added mental health services for your patients
• By introducing complexity-based integrated care management for patients in your setting with poorly controlled chronic illness and/or health complexity
• By assisting local leadership develop onsite integrated physical and mental condition services based on models that have been demonstrated to improve outcomes and lower total health costs

Increasingly, reimbursement for professional services will be driven by the ability to demonstrate improved outcomes for patients cared for by professional groups. To date, few primary care or medical specialist groups have targeted improving ineffectively treatment of comorbid mental conditions, which is one of the greatest predictors of poor clinical outcome, personal impairment, and high health care service use (cost), especially in patients with chronic medical illness or health complexity, for performance improvement. Expertise provided through Cartesian Solutions, Inc.™ services provides an opportunity for patient-centered medical homes and multispecialty medical groups to introduce onsite financially solvent evidence-based coordinated mental condition with physical health care for their chronically ill and complex patients.

For more information or to set up an appointment contact: Mary Kathol, Director of Project Implementation.

Cartesian Solutions, Inc.™
3004 Foxpoint Rd. - Burnsville, MN 55337
Phone: 952-426-1626 - Fax: 952-426-1200
E-mail: integration@cartesiansolutions.com