Joe McDonough, CEO, Innovive Health

The federal government is increasingly pushing for more integration between physical and behavioral health providers. While many in the behavioral and primary care space are still working out a roadmap to future integration, Massachusetts-based Innovive Health has been doing this type of work for years. Innovive is a home health provider that caters to individuals with serious mental illness. The goal of the company is to keep high-acuity and high-risk patients at home and out of the hospital. The company’s staff, which is primarily made up of registered nurses, are trained to care for patients with serious mental illness and other chronic health conditions. It partners with Medicaid and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to provide its services and aims to help curb costs by avoiding hospitalization. Behavioral Health Business caught up with Innovive CEO Joe McDonough to talk about integration, Medicaid and the future of behavioral health.