The Business of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Subcommittee offers the following information and tools for psychiatrists practicing in the field of consultation-liaison psychiatry [formerly psychosomatic medicine]:
Negotiating the Value of Your Service
Health Reform: Toolkit to Promote Psychosomatic Medicine
Executive summaries and PowerPoint slides that provide evidence of the importance of including C-L physicians in health reform efforts. Feel free to use these in working with primary care leaders and health insurers, hospitals, and employers.
Who to Negotiate With and How
2009 pre-conference course presentation by Stephen P. Melek, FSA, MAAA at the Academy's Annual Meeting
Models of C-L Practice
Financing MH Care through PH Benefits: Unifying the Health System
2009 pre-conference course presentation by Roger G. Kathol, MD, FAPM at the Academy's Annual Meeting
Paper on the Staffing of C-L/PM Services
Staffing patterns for consultation-liaison services vary widely. Staffing metrics from the five survey sources to-date include an average of 3.6 FTEs per program, 1553 annual consultations per program, 686 beds per program, 2.4 annual consultations per hospital bed, and 485 annual consultations per FTE. Right-sizing of a CLP staff can be accomplished using benchmarks from other services. More details are in the paper, which was published in the November-December 2010 issue of Psychosomatics. This work is a product of the ACLP task force on practice management and the ACLP committee on psychiatry education for non-psychiatrists.
Note Template
Psychiatric Consultation Report Template
Designed by the staff at Thomas Jefferson University, this four-page psychiatric consultation note template provides labeled spaces to document a comprehensive psychiatric history and exam. The note makes judicious use of itemized lists, checkboxes, and overall layout to maximize the efficiency and readability of the note by primary services.