Bringing Mental Health into Primary Care: A Conversation with Matthew Press, MD

At the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting 2025, Matthew Press, MD, sat down with Patient Care to discuss how integrating mental health services into primary care can help address a critical gap in access and improve outcomes across the board. In this interview, Dr Press introduces the collaborative care model—a proven, team-based approach to delivering mental health care within the primary care setting—and explains how clinicians can implement it in their own practices. He highlights the benefits for patients and providers alike, touches on reimbursement strategies, and makes the case for why collaborative care is a sustainable, scalable solution to the national mental health crisis.

Dr Press is an associate professor of medicine in the division of general internal medicine in the department of medicine at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in Wynnewood, PA.

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