Comparing Two Ways of Combining Behavioral Health Care and Primary Care for Adults

The enhancement to this project will assess whether integrated behavioral health mitigates the impact of COVID-19 on patients and whether the value of integrated behavioral health reduces or increases during the pandemic. It will also assess the interactions between the degree of integration of practices and the pandemic on patient outcomes. This is an observational extension to the original study and adds a survey for patients in the IBHPC trial. Surveys will be sent to patients and practices four months after the two-year follow-up date to assess changes associated with the pandemic. The survey has policy implications for insurers, regulators, health system managers, and other policy makers who must decide how to deploy limited healthcare resources in a postpandemic world.