Launched in 2009, the Serious Mental Illness (SMI) Innovations project was a collaboration between physical and behavioral health managed care organizations and county behavioral health offices in Southeast and Southwest Pennsylvania to integrate physical and behavioral health care services for...

Launched in 2009, the Serious Mental Illness (SMI) Innovations project was a collaboration between physical and behavioral health managed care organizations and county behavioral health offices in Southeast and Southwest Pennsylvania to integrate physical and behavioral health care services for...

This qualitative study examined the early implementation of the Behavioral Health Home Plus (BHHP) program in two county behavioral health agencies in rural Pennsylvania. BHHP is a reverse colocation model that embedded a registered nurse in each agency, provided wellness coaching training for...

Three case studies of exemplar Primary Care Practice Facilitation training programs provide an overview of each program’s design and content, training approaches, format, administrative structure, funding, staffing and curriculum. The case studies were developed by Mathematica under a...

This report examines the role of the primary care medical home in Healthy San Francisco, a health care access program for uninsured adults in the city and county of San Francisco. The program’s medical home requirement—and its associated referral system—appear to have...

To compare healthcare costs associated with initiating treatment on escitalopram or an alternative selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor.

This study looked at the impact of Medicare Part D coverage gaps by examining drug discontinuation and reinitiation among Medicare beneficiaries using medications for cancer or rheumatoid arthritis. The study found that patients in the arthritis or cancer groups—28 and 21 percent,...