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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Systems of care, organizations, and payors are called upon to prioritize financial investment in training programs, electronic tools, or other infrastructure to support effective implementation of MBC as part of routine care. Collect, share, act: A transtheoretical clinical model for doing measurement-based care in mental health treatment.

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Hepatitis C Micro-elimination Using Patient Navigation In a Regional Healthcare System [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting: MedStar Health, a multidisciplinary and multispecialty health care system in the mid-Atlantic. Intervention: Patient navigation program to specialist treatment from primary care with additional referral to behavioral health services.

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‘Not Accountable to Anyone’: As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Options

Physician's Weekly

By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. Prior authorization mostly happens behind the scenes, almost always electronically, and nearly all requests are quickly, or even instantly, approved. BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. —