Perinatal Psychiatry Access Network (PeriPAN)
Mental health is complex. Texas PeriPAN is free and simple, a trusted resource for clinicians seeing pregnant and postpartum patients.
How to Enroll
Call 888-901-2726, dial 1, then 3, to get enrolled today.
Available Statewide to Clinicians
Including OB/GYNs, family practice clinicians, PCPs, pediatricians, midwives, psychiatrists, nurses, and other clinicians.
PeriPAN Support
Rapid peer-to-peer consults, resources, and support from reproductive psychiatry experts.
Texas PeriPAN offers real-time, no-cost, evidence-based support for clinicians caring for pregnant and postpartum women. Our reproductive psychiatrists and mental health experts are here to consult and help you expand your capacity to meet the standard of mental health care for your patients. We also offer one-time patient-psychiatrist consults when indicated.
Why PeriPAN?
- Maternal mental health conditions are the most common complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
- Maternal mental health conditions affect 1 in 5 perinatal women and are the leading underlying cause of pregnancy-related death in the U.S. In Texas, 50k postpartum women experienced depression in one year.
- Women who get treatment can and do recover.
- Every Texas county has a persistent shortage of mental health care professionals.
- PeriPAN connects frontline maternal health providers to reproductive psychiatrists and specialists to help address maternal mental health concerns.
- Outcomes are improved for women whose perinatal clinicians use an access network.
- Enrolling is quick and easy—it only takes 5 minutes.
- PeriPAN is state funded, and there is no cost to the clinician or patient to use the service.
How does PeriPAN work?
- It’s simple to enroll and easy to use. Call 888-901-2726 to enroll and get help with a patient quickly.
- Speak directly to a mental health expert to assess and address your question. If you have a diagnostic or medication question, a reproductive psychiatrist will return your call within 30 minutes or you can schedule a call back at your preferred time. Our psychiatrists can provide one-time direct patient consults when needed at no cost to you or the patient.
- PeriPAN staff are available on the phones Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. You can leave a message anytime.
- No call is too small. We are here to support you.
How does PeriPAN help?
- Call us and get the real-time support and mental health expertise you need to treat your patients within their primary care setting.
- Save time by delegating the PeriPAN team to provide you with vetted lists of local referrals and resources specific to your patient’s needs and circumstances. PeriPAN offers regular, free CMEs, collaborative learning opportunities, and ethics credits in maternal mental health topics.
- Calling PeriPAN can be justification to document increased time or complexity-based coding if outside the global billing window
"It was just a joy to be able to call my local PeriPAN hub and get a call back from a psychiatrist within 15 minutes. I collaborated with that psychiatrist for the betterment of my patient. It was just easy to use and so accessible." - Martin Hechanova, MD
For more information, call 888-901-2726 dial 1, then 3, email PeriPANinfo@uttyler.edu, or go to TXPeriPAN.org.