The health-care overhaul, with its emphasis on medical homes and accountable care organizations that take responsibility for managing a patient's health rather than just providing medical services, offers promising models for integration, experts agree.
In clinical psychologist Benjamin Miller's primary care "dream world," mental health providers work alongside primary-care physicians, in the same office. Miller is an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Colorado's school of medicine in Denver. Part of his job is to integrate mental health into the family medicine department's clinical, education and research functions.
