Mental healthHealth Home
Health Home Program
A community-based approach to integrated healthcare for people managing chronic conditions alongside serious mental illness, emotional disturbance or opioid use disorder.
Somatic and behavioral health are coordinated across one multidisciplinary network rather than left to the patient to join up, the aim being fewer hospital visits and wellness that holds.
Community
Homes, community centers, accessible places
Integrated
Physical and behavioral health together
Six
Services in the program
Coordinated
One coordinator across every provider
Focus
Body and mind together
on one coordinated plan
What care management covers
Thorough assessment, then continuous oversight, with the strategy adjusted as progress is monitored.
Comprehensive care management
Comprehensive traditional care
Care coordination
Individual and family support
Health promotion
Referral to community and social support
What the first three weeks look like
No patient is placed in a program before an assessment, and no assessment happens before we have told you what it will cost.
Days 1–2
Intake call and benefits check
A coordinator confirms eligibility, verifies your insurance, and schedules your appointment. If you are unable to pay, a sliding-scale discount is applied and you are told the cost before anything is scheduled.
Week 1
Clinical assessment
A licensed clinician completes the biopsychosocial evaluation, covering history, medications and risk screening, then issues a provisional diagnosis with an ASAM level of care.
Weeks 2–3
Treatment plan in motion
You start with the prescriber and therapist who will stay with you, and the plan is reviewed at every update as your level of care steps up or down.
If a Health Home is not the right fit
Moving between these does not mean a new prescriber or a second intake.
Outpatient Mental Health Clinic
The main door into mental health care here: assessment, a diagnosis and a plan, then ongoing therapy and prescribing for children, adolescents, adults and older adults.
- Psychiatric evaluations
- Individual, group and family therapy
- Medication management
- Couples and marital counseling
- Family psychoeducation
- Play therapy
- Drug and alcohol support groups
- Drug and alcohol education
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program
For youth and adults with qualifying mental illnesses. Community-based and in-home work on daily living skills, built around an assessment and a personalized plan rather than a fixed curriculum.
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Mobile Treatment Services
Care delivered where the patient is, for people whose frequent visits to a clinic would pose logistical barriers. It is the practice's founding habit, still running.
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What it costs
Settled before you are booked in
You are told what it will cost before anything is scheduled, never after.
Most major plans billed
Medicare, Cigna and Optum among them. Benefits are verified free of charge before your first appointment.
Sliding scale if you're uninsured
Fees are set against household size and income under the federal poverty guidelines, and the scale is published.
Nobody is turned away
Clients are never denied services because of an inability to pay current or past fees.
One appointment
Start with an assessment
- The diagnosis
- The level of care
- What it will cost
Benefits verification is free, whether or not you go on to book.
Telehealth
Psychiatry and therapy by secure video anywhere in Maryland.
Confidentiality
Substance use records protected under 42 CFR Part 2.