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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">September 13, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Anthem – UC Health Partnership with Anthem and Octave to Improve Behavioral Health Access
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">UC Health is partnering with Anthem Blue Cross to promote a behavioral health provider organization called Octave to address the need for accessible, high-quality mental health care.
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Octave is a modern behavioral health practice that provides evidence-based, outcome-driven care that’s personalized for each patient. It can also address a wide range of mental health needs that include individual
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Octave providers have been available to UC faculty and staff enrolled in the UC PPO plans since January 2021. For more information about Octave, please visit the
<a href="https://www.findoctave.com/">Octave: Measurement-Based Care | A New Approach to Therapy</a> website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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