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Part V What It All Means -- FOR YOU!!

This is the final chapter of the five part series brought to you by No Health without Mental Health – December 2011

(Health care is in a period of “disruptive innovation
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In nearly all health plans, 5% of patients are “complex” and they utilize 50% of health resources

(Zuvekas & Cohen, Health Affairs 26: 249-257, 2007). Over 2/3 of this small group have concurrent physical and mental disorders yet are cared for in a clinical system in which mental health practitioners and medical practitioners rarely converse with eac