CoCM Basics
What does CoCM stand for in healthcare?
What is the Collaborative Care Model?
This team member provides patient's medical care in a medical practice setting.
Who is the primary care provider?
This tool is commonly used to measure depression severity in CoCM.
What is the PHQ-9?
True or False: Care team members are responsible for achieving a billable threshold of minutes for each patient each month and for successfully collecting completed measures.
What is true?
When is documentation due in the patient's charts?
What is within 24 hours?
What is 6-9 months until their goals have been met
This provider gives treatment recommendations and supports the care manager and PCP.
Who is Dr. Morris, Psychiatric Consultant
What does GAD-7 measure?
What is generalized anxiety disorder symptoms?
What is the billable threshold?
What is 36 or more minutes in the first month of enrollment and 31 or more minutes in any subsequent months. In order to bill for these minutes, measures must also be completed within the month.
True or False: It is helpful to schedule follow up visits at the end of each visit to ensure the patients plan their care and stay engaged in their treatment
What is True
Name the three core team members in the Collaborative Care Model.
Who are the primary care provider, the behavioral health care manager, and the psychiatric consultant?
This team member is responsible for providing short- term skill building interventions and providing psychoeducation to an identified panel of patients.
Who is the Behavioral Health Care Manager
How often are care team members responsible for checking measures in Mirah?
What is at least once per day - Mirah measures should be reviewed on a daily basis by all care team members during business hours.
True or False: All time spent coordinating care must be face-to-face to be billed.
What is false?
What is the purpose of the Initial Outreach to the patient/caregiver?
What is to introduce the program, confirm they are interested in participating and start to gather information from the patient/caregiver.
The Collaborative Care Model is especially effective in treating these two common mental health conditions.
What are depression and anxiety?
This team member is responsible for providing goal-oriented, short-term therapy for a mental health condition to an identified panel of patients.
Who is the BH Clinician
Regular use of screening tools in CoCM is an example of this care principle.
What is measurement-based care?
The psychiatric consultant’s time can be billed when this occurs.
What is when they provide consultation and treatment recommendations?
When you receive a new referral, what to you do?
What is create a patient chart in Mirah, conduct a chart review and call patient within 48 hours.
CoCM is grounded in this type of evidence-based decision-making.
What is measurement-based care?
This professional never sees the patient directly but reviews cases and guides treatment.
Who is the psychiatric consultant?
A PHQ-9 score that remains high after treatment initiation signals the need for this.
What is treatment adjustment or psychiatric consultation?
These types of tasks count toward time spent in CoCM billing.
All patient facing and non-patient facing tasks including phone calls, chart reviews and case consultation.
True or False: Regular communication with PCP's is a crucial piece of the Collaborative Care model.
What is True?