{"id":10867,"date":"2018-07-05T10:31:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T14:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10867"},"modified":"2018-07-05T10:31:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T14:31:50","slug":"texas-clinics-busting-traditional-silos-of-mental-and-physical-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10867","title":{"rendered":"Texas Clinics Busting Traditional Silos Of Mental And Physical Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Caroline Covington for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Kerstin Taylor fought alcohol and substance abuse problems for two decades. She periodically sought help through addiction and psychiatric treatments to stay sober, but she continued to relapse.<\/p>\n<p>That unrelenting roller coaster, and the emotional and mental fallout, left her with little energy or resources to take charge of her overall health. Taylor, 53, has asthma and doctors told her she was at risk of developing diabetes. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/texas-clinics-busting-traditional-silos-of-mental-and-physical-health-care\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=64247909&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8ZVWtWriIlPz9hDA8EIcqJakCnV4vrbIXK39WEswsDtgJ6Opywdu6coql2g2-ARatsYyP-AeDEKNbQkLB08Of9i9hWJQ&amp;_hsmi=64247909\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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