Preparing Your Board For Value-Based Contracting
By Joe Naughton-Travers, Ed.M., Senior Associate & Executive Editor, Management Newsletter, OPEN MINDS Discussions about organizational strategy can easily take a negative turn, especially when talking about whether boards of directors at specialty provider organizations are up for the challenge of governance in a value-based market. Admittedly, the focus on value and increasing financial…
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Moving Beyond Fee-For-Service With Health Plans: Essential Elements To Getting Paid For Value
Slowly but surely, value-based reimbursement (VBR) is happening in the specialty provider marketplace. 40% of specialty provider organizations reported participating in a VBR contract (an increase of 13% from the previous year) according to our 2022 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Executive Survey. But, only 10% of specialty provider organizations have 20% or more of their…
40% & Counting
By Monica E Oss, Chief Executive Officer The proportion of U.S. health care reimbursement dollars paid in advanced value-based reimbursement (VBR) models—contracts with shared savings, downside financial risk, and/or population-based payments—just passed 40%. The slow adoption of VBR with financial gain sharing and downside risk sharing—along with the unique challenges to specialty provider organizations in…
VBR Marches On – A Trend Driving 2022 Strategy
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer We started the year with the release of new reports on the continued movement away from fee-for-service reimbursement to alternate, value-based reimbursement (VBR) models. Over half of health systems are planning to move to “payvider” market positioning in 2022 (see Nearly 60% Of Health Systems Aim To Become ‘Payviders’…
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Who Should Do What? Scope of Practice; Treatment Tech Shift Clinical Best Practices
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer There has been a long debate about the scope of health care practices. What type of licensed clinical professionals can perform particular functions? Should psychologists and/or pharmacists prescribe psychotropic medications? What supervision do nurse practitioners and physician assistants need? (Should ‘physician assistants’ be renamed ‘physician associates’?) Psychologists can…
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The Opportunities & Challenges Of VBR – Making It Work On The Ground
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer Despite significant movement, behavioral health is trailing the rest of health care domains in value-based reimbursement contracting. Forty-five percent of specialty provider organizations have some value-based reimbursement (VBR)—compared to 72% of primary care organizations (for more, see, The OPEN MINDS 2022 Survey On Value-Based Reimbursement In Specialty And Primary Care). And…
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Preparing Your Board For Value-Based Contracting
By Joe Naughton-Travers, Ed.M., Senior Associate & Executive Editor, Management Newsletter, OPEN MINDS Discussions about organizational strategy can easily take a negative turn, especially when talking about whether boards of directors at specialty provider organizations are up for the challenge of governance in a value-based market. Admittedly, the focus on value and increasing financial…
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Moving Beyond Fee-For-Service With Health Plans: Essential Elements To Getting Paid For Value
Slowly but surely, value-based reimbursement (VBR) is happening in the specialty provider marketplace. 40% of specialty provider organizations reported participating in a VBR contract (an increase of 13% from the previous year) according to our 2022 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Executive Survey. But, only 10% of specialty provider organizations have 20% or more of their…
40% & Counting
By Monica E Oss, Chief Executive Officer The proportion of U.S. health care reimbursement dollars paid in advanced value-based reimbursement (VBR) models—contracts with shared savings, downside financial risk, and/or population-based payments—just passed 40%. The slow adoption of VBR with financial gain sharing and downside risk sharing—along with the unique challenges to specialty provider organizations in…
VBR Marches On – A Trend Driving 2022 Strategy
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer We started the year with the release of new reports on the continued movement away from fee-for-service reimbursement to alternate, value-based reimbursement (VBR) models. Over half of health systems are planning to move to “payvider” market positioning in 2022 (see Nearly 60% Of Health Systems Aim To Become ‘Payviders’…
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Who Should Do What? Scope of Practice; Treatment Tech Shift Clinical Best Practices
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer There has been a long debate about the scope of health care practices. What type of licensed clinical professionals can perform particular functions? Should psychologists and/or pharmacists prescribe psychotropic medications? What supervision do nurse practitioners and physician assistants need? (Should ‘physician assistants’ be renamed ‘physician associates’?) Psychologists can…
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The Opportunities & Challenges Of VBR – Making It Work On The Ground
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer Despite significant movement, behavioral health is trailing the rest of health care domains in value-based reimbursement contracting. Forty-five percent of specialty provider organizations have some value-based reimbursement (VBR)—compared to 72% of primary care organizations (for more, see, The OPEN MINDS 2022 Survey On Value-Based Reimbursement In Specialty And Primary Care). And…
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Preparing Your Board For Value-Based Contracting
By Joe Naughton-Travers, Ed.M., Senior Associate & Executive Editor, Management Newsletter, OPEN MINDS Discussions about organizational strategy can easily take a negative turn, especially when talking about whether boards of directors at specialty provider organizations are up for the challenge of governance in a value-based market. Admittedly, the focus on value and increasing financial…
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Moving Beyond Fee-For-Service With Health Plans: Essential Elements To Getting Paid For Value
Slowly but surely, value-based reimbursement (VBR) is happening in the specialty provider marketplace. 40% of specialty provider organizations reported participating in a VBR contract (an increase of 13% from the previous year) according to our 2022 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Executive Survey. But, only 10% of specialty provider organizations have 20% or more of their…
Making Mergers & Acquisitions Work — Perspectives From Executives Post-Mergers
This presentation took place during The 2022 OPEN MINDS Mergers, Acquisitions & Affiliations Summit. From mergers driven by the desire to integrate with primary care, to acquisition of a “competitor” —each of these case study presentations will review the ups and downs of the process and offer strategic advice to organizations exploring the same path.…
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Mergers: How To Live Happily Ever After
By Monica Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS Despite (or maybe because of) all the changes occurring across the health and human service landscape, mergers and acquisitions are proceeding at a rapid pace. This is true for both for-profit and non-profit organizations. Just in the past few months we’ve seen headlines like Northern Wyoming…
And The Digital Health Winner Is…
By Monica Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS We’ve reached a time when the investor-owned health and human service market will likely see a correction of market value. It’s been a decade of big investment. The investment in health care in general—and in digital and in behavioral health companies in particular— culminated in $57.2…
Getting To Scale – One Way Or Another
By Monica Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS How big is big enough for a sustainable specialty provider organization? The answer, which is a moving target, is ‘it depends”. The news of Amazon’s acquisition of One Medical has dominated the market news the past couple weeks (see Amazon To Acquire Primary Care Provider One…
Preparing Your Board For Value-Based Contracting
By Joe Naughton-Travers, Ed.M., Senior Associate & Executive Editor, Management Newsletter, OPEN MINDS Discussions about organizational strategy can easily take a negative turn, especially when talking about whether boards of directors at specialty provider organizations are up for the challenge of governance in a value-based market. Admittedly, the focus on value and increasing financial…
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The Tech & Human Infrastructure For Hybrid Care: Coordinating Virtual, In-Clinic & In-Home Services
This presentation took place at The 2023 OPEN MINDS Strategy & Innovation Institute. Dr. Doug Wright, Chief Operations Officer, Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center, Shawna Wright, Ph.D., LP, Director KU Center For Telemedicine & Telehealth, University of Kansas Center For Telemedicine & Telehealth, and Sharon Hicks, Senior Associate for OPEN MINDS explored: Building hybrid service delivery…
Building A Digital Transformation Roadmap – Aligning Technology, Team, & Processes For Superior Consumer Experience & Engagement: The 2023 OPEN MINDS Seminar – Sponsored By Qualifacts
This presentation, sponsored by Qualifacts, took place at The 2023 OPEN MINDS Executive Leadership Retreat. Paul Duck, Chief Strategy Officer, and Carol Clayton, Ph.D., Senior Associate for OPEN MINDS, discussed a road map for digital-first evolution and what it means to be a digital-first organization, the eight dimensions of a digital-first framework for quality and performance, and…
Countdown To Launching Your CCBHC
During this webinar, Qualifacts shares their proprietary approach to launching a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC). In this presentation, Qualifacts’ resident CCBHC expert and program manager, Mary Givens, MRA, and OPEN MINDS’ Senior Associate, Deanne Cornette, MHA, GPC, walk through the five stages of the CCBHC Experience. In looking at each stage, they share…
Whole Person Care – Challenges & Opportunities For Behavioral Health Provider Organizations In Integrated Systems Of Care
Whole person care has become a larger focus in behavioral health. This focus creates challenges and opportunities for the provider organizations serving this population. There is evidence that integrated care and whole person care, especially those care models which include social determinants of health, improves patient experience, clinical outcomes, and can lead to reduction in…
Solving Behavioral Health Service Delivery Challenges: Why You Need To Be Thinking About AI…
Executive teams of behavioral health organizations are balancing several issues at the same time – improving access to care, productivity management, ensuring consumer safety, reducing administrative costs, and more. The solutions to these issues are increasingly being addressed by artificial intelligence-infused technology. Artificial intelligence (AI) in the health care field is more than chatbots doing…
Preparing Your Board For Value-Based Contracting
By Joe Naughton-Travers, Ed.M., Senior Associate & Executive Editor, Management Newsletter, OPEN MINDS Discussions about organizational strategy can easily take a negative turn, especially when talking about whether boards of directors at specialty provider organizations are up for the challenge of governance in a value-based market. Admittedly, the focus on value and increasing financial…
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Preparing Your Board For Value-Based Contracting
By Joe Naughton-Travers, Ed.M., Senior Associate & Executive Editor, Management Newsletter, OPEN MINDS Discussions about organizational strategy can easily take a negative turn, especially when talking about whether boards of directors at specialty provider organizations are up for the challenge of governance in a value-based market. Admittedly, the focus on value and increasing financial…
Continue Reading Preparing Your Board For Value-Based Contracting
Moving Beyond Fee-For-Service With Health Plans: Essential Elements To Getting Paid For Value
Slowly but surely, value-based reimbursement (VBR) is happening in the specialty provider marketplace. 40% of specialty provider organizations reported participating in a VBR contract (an increase of 13% from the previous year) according to our 2022 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Executive Survey. But, only 10% of specialty provider organizations have 20% or more of their…
40% & Counting
By Monica E Oss, Chief Executive Officer The proportion of U.S. health care reimbursement dollars paid in advanced value-based reimbursement (VBR) models—contracts with shared savings, downside financial risk, and/or population-based payments—just passed 40%. The slow adoption of VBR with financial gain sharing and downside risk sharing—along with the unique challenges to specialty provider organizations in…
VBR Marches On – A Trend Driving 2022 Strategy
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer We started the year with the release of new reports on the continued movement away from fee-for-service reimbursement to alternate, value-based reimbursement (VBR) models. Over half of health systems are planning to move to “payvider” market positioning in 2022 (see Nearly 60% Of Health Systems Aim To Become ‘Payviders’…
Continue Reading VBR Marches On – A Trend Driving 2022 Strategy
Who Should Do What? Scope of Practice; Treatment Tech Shift Clinical Best Practices
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer There has been a long debate about the scope of health care practices. What type of licensed clinical professionals can perform particular functions? Should psychologists and/or pharmacists prescribe psychotropic medications? What supervision do nurse practitioners and physician assistants need? (Should ‘physician assistants’ be renamed ‘physician associates’?) Psychologists can…
Continue Reading Who Should Do What? Scope of Practice; Treatment Tech Shift Clinical Best Practices
The Opportunities & Challenges Of VBR – Making It Work On The Ground
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer Despite significant movement, behavioral health is trailing the rest of health care domains in value-based reimbursement contracting. Forty-five percent of specialty provider organizations have some value-based reimbursement (VBR)—compared to 72% of primary care organizations (for more, see, The OPEN MINDS 2022 Survey On Value-Based Reimbursement In Specialty And Primary Care). And…
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