Behavioral health is still largely stuck in the fee-for-service reimbursement model, but industry insiders have hung their hopes on value-based care changing that paradigm. Still, this shift may just be the first step in behavioral health’s reimbursement evolution. Population health management could stand as the future of behavioral health beyond value-based care, which payers often […]
Access to behavioral health care continues to elude people across the country. To solve this problem, Highmark Health is taking a whole-person approach to behavioral health, Senior Vice President and Executive Medical Director of Population and Curated Health Dr. Anil Singh told Behavioral Health Business. The challenge to Highmark Health’s behavioral health strategy is the […]
In recent years, employers have seen substance use disorder (SUD) claims increase. New York-based Spring Health is looking to address this issue by partnering with Eleanor Health. Spring launched its SUD program in 2021 and continued to expand its offerings, partly through partnerships with other SUD providers. The partnership with Eleanor is Spring’s latest effort […]
Highmark Health’s executive medical director of behavioral health, Bradley Karlin, is looking to tackle the increase in behavioral health needs by focusing on personalizing care and upstream prevention. He’s also looking to use more data to make decisions, he told Behavioral Health Business. Karlin, who joined Highmark in January 2021, has a long history of […]
Changes to Medicaid in 2022 repositioned behavioral health’s relevance to the program — and its importance to the behavioral health industry. Medicaid is the single-largest payer of mental health services in the nation. And changes to the public health plan for vulnerable populations may further alter the business landscape, industry insiders believe. Medicaid, a collaboration […]
A former Kindred Healthcare executive who led the post-acute provider’s innovation efforts and a services division is now the CEO of Aware Recovery Care. Dr. Brian Holzer said on Wednesday that he had taken over the CEO post of the Wallingford, Connecticut-based in-home addiction treatment services provider in a LinkedIn post. His first day on […]
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