Creating the Financial Future of Integration in Primary Care: State and National Innovations

Authors

  • Jennifer L. Hodgson
  • Laurie C. Ivey,
  • Randall S. Reitz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47779/ajhs.2014.219

Keywords:

Integrated Primary Care, Financial Sustainability, Behavioral Health

Abstract

The primary care system is a fertile ground for professionals to be trained to promote positive health behaviors. However, most primary care systems that integrate physical and behavioral health struggle with financial start-up and sustainability. The growth and development of mechanisms for supporting grass roots integration highlight the creativity and sheer will of communities, states, and healthcare systems to innovate their way to health. And now, for the first time, national-level funding initiatives have begun to support integration. This article highlights funding mechanisms at the state, foundation, payor, and federal levels that have been used to champion innovation. It provides a historical and future-oriented primer of the various mechanisms for initiating and advancing integration in primary care settings.

Author Biographies

Jennifer L. Hodgson

Jennifer Hodgson, PhD, East Carolina University, Departments of Child Development and Family Relations and Family Medicine, Jennifer L. Hodgson, East Carolina University, Departments of Child Development and Family Relations and Family Medicine, 114 Redditt House, Greenville,
NC 27858

Laurie C. Ivey,

Laurie C. Ivey, PsyD Swedish Family Medicine Residency, 191 E Orchard Rd., Ste 200, Littleton, CO 80121

Randall S. Reitz

Randall S. Reitz, PhD; St Mary’s Family Medicine Residency, 2698 Patterson Road, Grand Junction, CO 81506

Published

2020-11-15

How to Cite

Hodgson, J., Ivey, L., & Reitz, R. (2020). Creating the Financial Future of Integration in Primary Care: State and National Innovations. American Journal of Health Studies, 29(3). https://doi.org/10.47779/ajhs.2014.219