Consulting:

Using our years of psychiatry oversight experience, GERMANE & WISE Mental Health Systems Consulting offers healthcare systems innovative mental health care management that grows revenue, better serves your practitioners, and makes you the standout care provider in your community.

Here’s how we do it:

• We work with your medical group to either provide or develop their own collaborative care model/behavioral health integration system.

• We make your psychiatry outpatient department more efficient and profitable, by working with your specialty providers to expand patient capacity, developing alternative payment methods that provide better reimbursement, and evaluating your existing contracts to guide better negotiation with third-party payers.

• We evaluate your current services for cost, reimbursement, clinical quality, compliance and workflow.

• We help you repair or create a culture of trust and empowerment.

• Having trouble recruiting another Endocrinologist? Neurologist? Geriatrician? Germane & Wise can help you leverage your existing high-demand specialists to cover more patients even when they don’t need mental health. Our system doesn’t mean more work for the doctors, just more care for the patients, so everybody wins.

We’ve worked with healthcare systems on:

• Emergency department intervention and strength-based discharge planning

• Specialty mental health expansion

• Primary care psychiatric consultation and care management integration

• In-system insurance care management and planning to ensure your system is spending its available dollars wisely

Germane & Wise knows about solving mental health problems as they emerge throughout the healthcare system. We can create innovative solutions for what is troubling your system - whether it is patients backing up the emergency rooms or how to triage mental health in the call center - we can develop an effective, evidenced-based solution specific to you.

Training:

CMS allows for care managers in collaborative care to be unlicensed but must have “specialized training.” Germane & Wise has trained many care managers.

We can help ensure that your managers are both compliant with CMS and well-trained to provide the kind of service your practice will come to rely on. From how to de-escalate upset patients to how to triage a suicidal patient to how to get the most pertinent information, a GW-trained care manager is a cut above the rest.   

We also train inpatient mental health workers! Just ask!