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Primary Care, Behavioral Health, Provider Colocation, and Rurality

Benjamin F. Miller, Stephen Petterson, Shandra M. Brown Levey, Jessica C. Payne-Murphy, Miranda Moore and Andrew Bazemore
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2014, 27 (3) 367-374; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2014.03.130260
Benjamin F. Miller
From the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora (BFM, SMBL, JCP-M); and The Robert Graham Center, Washington, DC (SP, MM, AB).
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Stephen Petterson
From the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora (BFM, SMBL, JCP-M); and The Robert Graham Center, Washington, DC (SP, MM, AB).
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Shandra M. Brown Levey
From the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora (BFM, SMBL, JCP-M); and The Robert Graham Center, Washington, DC (SP, MM, AB).
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Jessica C. Payne-Murphy
From the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora (BFM, SMBL, JCP-M); and The Robert Graham Center, Washington, DC (SP, MM, AB).
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Miranda Moore
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Andrew Bazemore
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Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to characterize the proximity of primary care and behavioral health service delivery sites in the United States and factors influencing their colocation.

Methods: We geocoded the practice addresses of primary care and behavioral health providers found in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' National Plan and Provider Enumeration System Downloadable File to report where colocation is occurring throughout the country.

Results: The extent to which primary care physicians are colocated with behavioral health providers is strongly associated with rurality. Specifically, 40.2% of primary care physicians in urban areas are colocated with behavioral health providers compared with 22.8% in isolated rural areas and 26.5% in frontier areas. However, when controlling for number of primary care physicians at a location, the odds of colocation actually are greater for physicians in a frontier area than those in urban areas (odds ratio, 1.289; P < .01).

Conclusions: Our findings offer new insights into the overlap of the behavioral health and primary care workforce, where opportunities for integration may be limited because of practice size and the proximity of providers, and where new possibilities for integration exist.

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The Journal of the American Board of Family     Medicine: 27 (3)
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Benjamin F. Miller, Stephen Petterson, Shandra M. Brown Levey, Jessica C. Payne-Murphy, Miranda Moore, Andrew Bazemore
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2014, 27 (3) 367-374; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2014.03.130260

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Benjamin F. Miller, Stephen Petterson, Shandra M. Brown Levey, Jessica C. Payne-Murphy, Miranda Moore, Andrew Bazemore
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2014, 27 (3) 367-374; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2014.03.130260
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