Primary Care Physician Referral Patterns for Behavioral Health Diagnoses

Objective: This study examined whether visits to primary care physicians (PCPs) by patients with a primary behavioral health diagnosis were more likely to be associated with referral to another physician and if so, whether the association varied by clinical condition. Methods: Using PCP visits (N=577,719,897) from the 2011–2015 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, the authors estimated logistic regression models of whether the probability of...