Episode 58: Adding Behavioral And Mental Health In Primary Healthcare Team
December 21, 2021
Today, our guest is Spencer Hutchins. He is the co-founder and CEO of Concert Health. Concert Health is working in the behavioral health and mental health space to make healthcare accessible to underserved populations including those with Medicare/Medicaid and via rural health clinics.
Currently, they have over 130 employed behavioral health clinicians on the team that work hand in hand with primary care practitioners and care for over 20,000 patients.
We’ll be discussing:
The behavioral and mental health space under the COVID-19 pandemic
Providing the blueprint in allowing healthcare providers to scale and grow
Combining effort of the patient and the primary care team to address mental health
Deciding the type of organization to build
Integrating a behavioral care manager and a psychiatric consultant to the primary care team
[00:01:00] Background of Spencer Hutchins
[00:03:00] Maneuvering mental healthcare amid the pandemic
[00:05:00] Embedding therapy to a primary healthcare setting
[00:07:00] Roadblocks in integrating the team-model services into people's existing models of companies
[00:09:00] The collaborative care model
[00:11:00] Leveraging different technologies and multiple team members to amplify the value of healthcare
[00:13:00] Measuring someone's behavioral health by the personal health questionnaire nine (PHQ 9)
[00:17:00] Providing resources to the demographics that have limited or no access to care
[00:19:00] Society-wide awakening to the behavioral health care
[00:23:00] Rapid fire round
Resources:
Website: https://concerthealth.io
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sphutchins
Twitter: https://twitter.com/concert_health
https://twitter.com/schutchins?lang=eu
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/concert-health-inc
The behavioral and mental health space under the COVID-19 pandemic
Providing the blueprint in allowing healthcare providers to scale and grow
Combining effort of the patient and the primary care team to address mental health
Deciding the type of organization to build
Integrating a behavioral care manager and a psychiatric consultant to the primary care team
[00:01:00] Background of Spencer Hutchins
[00:03:00] Maneuvering mental healthcare amid the pandemic
[00:05:00] Embedding therapy to a primary healthcare setting
[00:07:00] Roadblocks in integrating the team-model services into people's existing models of companies
[00:09:00] The collaborative care model
[00:11:00] Leveraging different technologies and multiple team members to amplify the value of healthcare
[00:13:00] Measuring someone's behavioral health by the personal health questionnaire nine (PHQ 9)
[00:17:00] Providing resources to the demographics that have limited or no access to care
[00:19:00] Society-wide awakening to the behavioral health care
[00:23:00] Rapid fire round
Resources:
Website: https://concerthealth.io
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sphutchins
Twitter: https://twitter.com/concert_health
https://twitter.com/schutchins?lang=eu
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/concert-health-inc