Pearl of the Week: Behavioral health integration pays off

UC Davis uses behavioral health integration to improve outcomes in value-based care

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STEPS Forward Pearl of the Week

In a recent webinar, Lorin Scher, MD, and Reshma Gupta, MD, MSHPM from UC Davis Health, detailed how embedding behavioral health clinicians across all 14 UC Davis primary care sites reduced psychiatry wait times from three months to just two to three weeks. Now, more than a third of new behavioral health referrals are managed within primary care. 

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