THE COLLABORATIVE CARE MODEL (CoCM)

The resources below relate to the Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model ("CoCM"), the gold-standard approach to improving MH/SU clinical outcomes when care is provided in primary care settings...where most people receive their MH/SU care:

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• 2026 Progress Report: Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model (CoCM)

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Press Release – New Study Finds Use of Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model has Expanded Rapidly for Children and Adults, but with Enormous Disparities Among States

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• Summary Slides: Findings, Insights, Recommendations and Supporters

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• 2026 Medicaid Fee-for-Service Reimbursement Levels – State by State:

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• Summary Analysis

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• Detailed Analysis (Note: Clicking this link will download an Excel spreadsheet to your computer)

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• 2025 Directory, 2nd Edition: Collaborative Care Service Organizations (CSOs) Which Provide CoCM Implementation Support and/or Staff to Health Systems and Primary Care Practices

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• 2025 Issue Brief, 2nd Edition:  Mounting Evidence That Use of the Collaborative Care Model Reduces Total Healthcare Costs – 4 CoCM Studies – each involving Kaiser Permanente, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, or Independence Blue Cross – demonstrated reductions in Total Healthcare Costs, as soon as within 6 months and for as long as 4 years

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Press Release for 1st Edition – Mounting Evidence that use of the Mental Health Collaborative Care Model is Associated with Reductions in Total Healthcare Costs

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• 2025 Issue Brief:  Large Reductions in Suicide Risk, Attempts and Deaths Demonstrated by Three "Real World" Studies in Primary Care​​

 

​Press Release issued by Shatterproof and BFF, with quotes from American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and 

The Jed Foundation​​​​

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• Shatterproof Webinar: Reducing Suicide Risk Through Primary Care

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• Underlying Studies:

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• Addressing Suicide Risk: A Study of Dose Response in Collaborative Care – Concert Health

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• Change in Suicidal Ideation, Depression, and Anxiety Following Collaborative Care in the Community – University of Pennsylvania Health System

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• Effectiveness of Integrating Suicide Care in Primary Care – Kaiser Permanente

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• Significance of Medicaid reimbursement for CoCM in driving use by providers for patients in Medicaid, Medicare and Commercial Plans:

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• 2025 Collaborative Care (CoCM) – Adequate Medicaid Reimbursement is Critical for Broadscale Implementation: Connecticut Update – A State with Adequate Reimbursement

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• 2024 Collaborative Care (CoCM) – Adequate Medicaid Reimbursement is Critical for Broadscale Implementation

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• 2021 CoCM Endorsements by 18 Organizations

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• Limitations of "Treatment as Usual" for Mental Health and Substance Use in Primary Care 2002-2021 – Why broadscale implementation of CoCM is critical in order to improve MH/SU care