More Fuel For ‘Integrated’ Care

There is a lot of emerging data on how behavioral disorders, particularly untreated behavioral disorders, complicate the treatment of medical conditions – frequently resulting in poorer outcomes and increased costs. Some of our recent coverage of this includes Looking Beyond The Superutilizer Umbrella, Comorbid Dementia Increases Medicare Costs By Over 100%, and Reinventing Primary Care – A Challenge For All Health Care Executives. This is the case made for “integrated” care.

But there is another issue that makes an equally compelling case for integrated care – the presence of anxiety disorder or depression that mask an underlying physical health problem. I hadn’t . . .