Don’t Leave Money On The Table: How The Right Technology Can Improve Your VBR Success
Originally presented on May 26th, 2021 Value-based care is here! If you haven’t started thinking about what it is you need to compete in a value-based environment, now is the time to start. With the rise in value-based care contracts and utilization of alternative payment models, provider organizations are challenged with doing the research and…
Value-Based Reimbursement Models Help SPARC Get A Leg Up In Medicaid Managed Care Contracting
By Meena Dayak SPARC Services & Programs (SPARC) is a behavioral health provider organization in North Carolina that has been providing home and community-based services since 2015. They serve 425 consumers monthly and employ 70 full-time staff. They focus on complex consumers—children and adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI) who have not been…
Don’t Leave Money On The Table: How The Right Technology Can Improve Your VBR Success
Value-based care is here! If you haven’t started thinking about what it is you need to compete in a value-based environment, now is the time to start. With the rise in value-based care contracts and utilization of alternative payment models, provider organizations are challenged with doing the research and homework to get prepared for these…
Why Measuring Performance & Tracking Outcomes Are Your Roadmap to Success: A Discussion With Eric Arnson, Chief Product Officer, Qualifacts + Credible
This presentation was delivered on March 10, 2021 at The OPEN MINDS Technology & Analytics Institute. In the presentation, the speakers highlighted the critical importance of your electronic health record’s (EHR) analytics and reporting functionality. The speakers discussed what is driving the trend towards greater need for outcomes tracking and reporting; how providers are using…
The Tech-Enabled Provider Organization: The 2020 <em>OPEN MINDS</em> Health & Human Service Technology Survey
As the health and human service market shifts to value-based reimbursement with a focus on cost and quality, specialty provider organizations will need to adopt new technologies to survive. Increasingly, there is a need for population health management, data exchange, and clinical decision support tools. For executives, linking technology investment to strategy is essential to…
Preparing For The Unknown: A Sneak Peak At The 2020 National EHR Survey Results
The COVID-19 pandemic created substantial change across the health and human services industry. To understand the changes made and planned for EHR functionality during this changing time, we surveyed over 5,000 behavioral health provider organizations on their EHR purchasing and implementation behavioral and functionality status. Get a sneak peak of the 2020 National Behavioral Health…
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Don’t Leave Money On The Table: How The Right Technology Can Improve Your VBR Success
Originally presented on May 26th, 2021 Value-based care is here! If you haven’t started thinking about what it is you need to compete in a value-based environment, now is the time to start. With the rise in value-based care contracts and utilization of alternative payment models, provider organizations are challenged with doing the research and…
Making Strategy Work – Mission, Growth, & Sustainability
Free web forum, sponsored by Qualifacts + Credible and OPEN MINDS Michael Porter stated that strategy was really just answering the two most basic questions of an organization: Who do we serve and how do we serve them? While there is elegant simplicity in that phrasing, planned strategic change is a delicate balancing act of…
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A Stable Connection Should Mean More Than Just a Strong Wi-Fi Signal: How to Keep Our Care Connections Personal in a Virtual World
Free Executive Web Briefing Courtesy Of Qualifacts + Credible July 13, 2021 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. Eastern With the shift to virtual meetings and hybrid models to provide care to clients and consumers, the feeling that we’ve lost the connection of face-to-face interactions is real. Virtual fatigue leaves us all longing for the “human touch,” but…
Exploring the CCBHC Landscape: A Path to Success
The Arizona behavioral health and human services community has been challenged like never before in 2020. For the growing CCBHC community, there have been some added complexities, and opportunities, in the COVID-19 pandemic. Want to find out what they learned, and how they are carrying that knowledge forward to provide more and better services? This…
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Value-Based Reimbursement Models Help SPARC Get A Leg Up In Medicaid Managed Care Contracting
By Meena Dayak SPARC Services & Programs (SPARC) is a behavioral health provider organization in North Carolina that has been providing home and community-based services since 2015. They serve 425 consumers monthly and employ 70 full-time staff. They focus on complex consumers—children and adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI) who have not been…
California Alliance of Child & Family Services 2021 Summer Virtual Member Education Event
As the California health and human services system moves towards increased managed care and performance-based models of service delivery, it is a strategic imperative for provider organizations to understand the operational systems required for successful contracting and care delivery in this environment. Shifts in Medi-Cal financing and reimbursement proposed by the State and the county…
Don’t Leave Money On The Table: How The Right Technology Can Improve Your VBR Success
Originally presented on May 26th, 2021 Value-based care is here! If you haven’t started thinking about what it is you need to compete in a value-based environment, now is the time to start. With the rise in value-based care contracts and utilization of alternative payment models, provider organizations are challenged with doing the research and…
Babylon, A World Leading, Digital-First, Value-Based Care Company, Announces Plans To Become A Public Company Via $4.2 Billion Merger With Alkuri Global Acquisition Corp.
Babylon Holdings Limited (Babylon), a world leading, digital-first value-based care company, and Alkuri Global Acquisition Corp. (Alkuri Global), a special purpose acquisition company, announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement. Upon closing of the transaction, the combined company will operate as Babylon and plans to trade on Nasdaq under the new symbol…
Eleanor Health Announces $20 Million Series B Financing To Address The Growing Need For Value-Based Addiction & Mental Health Treatment
Eleanor Health, the first outpatient addiction and mental health provider organization delivering convenient and comprehensive care through a population and value-based payment structure, announced it has closed an oversubscribed $20 million Series B financing round. The company received significant participation from all existing investors including Town Hall Ventures, Echo Health Ventures, and Mosaic Health Solutions,…
Caron Treatment Centers & Independence Blue Cross Report Value-Based Contract Linked To Lower 90-Day Readmission Rate
Independence Blue Cross (IBC) reported that its value-based arrangement with addiction treatment provider Caron Treatment Centers resulted in a 5.6% 90-day readmission rate during a 2019 pilot. Under the arrangement, IBC paid Caron one single upfront fee for IBC members receiving treatment for addiction disorder, and Caron was at risk for any readmissions that occurred…
Value-Based Reimbursement Models Help SPARC Get A Leg Up In Medicaid Managed Care Contracting
By Meena Dayak SPARC Services & Programs (SPARC) is a behavioral health provider organization in North Carolina that has been providing home and community-based services since 2015. They serve 425 consumers monthly and employ 70 full-time staff. They focus on complex consumers—children and adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI) who have not been…
Don’t Leave Money On The Table: How The Right Technology Can Improve Your VBR Success
Value-based care is here! If you haven’t started thinking about what it is you need to compete in a value-based environment, now is the time to start. With the rise in value-based care contracts and utilization of alternative payment models, provider organizations are challenged with doing the research and homework to get prepared for these…
Don’t Leave Money On The Table: How The Right Technology Can Improve Your VBR Success
Originally presented on May 26th, 2021 Value-based care is here! If you haven’t started thinking about what it is you need to compete in a value-based environment, now is the time to start. With the rise in value-based care contracts and utilization of alternative payment models, provider organizations are challenged with doing the research and…
Value-Based Reimbursement Models Help SPARC Get A Leg Up In Medicaid Managed Care Contracting
By Meena Dayak SPARC Services & Programs (SPARC) is a behavioral health provider organization in North Carolina that has been providing home and community-based services since 2015. They serve 425 consumers monthly and employ 70 full-time staff. They focus on complex consumers—children and adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI) who have not been…
Don’t Leave Money On The Table: How The Right Technology Can Improve Your VBR Success
Value-based care is here! If you haven’t started thinking about what it is you need to compete in a value-based environment, now is the time to start. With the rise in value-based care contracts and utilization of alternative payment models, provider organizations are challenged with doing the research and homework to get prepared for these…
Why Measuring Performance & Tracking Outcomes Are Your Roadmap to Success: A Discussion With Eric Arnson, Chief Product Officer, Qualifacts + Credible
This presentation was delivered on March 10, 2021 at The OPEN MINDS Technology & Analytics Institute. In the presentation, the speakers highlighted the critical importance of your electronic health record’s (EHR) analytics and reporting functionality. The speakers discussed what is driving the trend towards greater need for outcomes tracking and reporting; how providers are using…
The Tech-Enabled Provider Organization: The 2020 <em>OPEN MINDS</em> Health & Human Service Technology Survey
As the health and human service market shifts to value-based reimbursement with a focus on cost and quality, specialty provider organizations will need to adopt new technologies to survive. Increasingly, there is a need for population health management, data exchange, and clinical decision support tools. For executives, linking technology investment to strategy is essential to…
Preparing For The Unknown: A Sneak Peak At The 2020 National EHR Survey Results
The COVID-19 pandemic created substantial change across the health and human services industry. To understand the changes made and planned for EHR functionality during this changing time, we surveyed over 5,000 behavioral health provider organizations on their EHR purchasing and implementation behavioral and functionality status. Get a sneak peak of the 2020 National Behavioral Health…
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Preparing For The Unknown: The EHR Functionality To Survive During & After A Pandemic — Results Of The 2020 National Behavioral Health EHR Survey
Free Executive Web Briefing, Sponsored by Qualifacts + Credible The COVID-19 pandemic has created substantial change across the entire health and human services industry. As thousands of Americans fell ill, provider organizations were challenged to shift to virtual/remote work and care delivery almost overnight. This required provider organizations to change what was previously considered necessary…
Getting The Most From Your EHR Selection & Implementation Process—Central Mental Health Center’s Executive Director Kathy Mosher, MS, MBA
This presentation was delivered on October 28, 2020 at The 2020 OPEN MINDS Executive Leadership Retreat. In the presentation, the speakers discussed how Central Mental Health Center approached their selection of an electronic health record (EHR) system to meet their current and future needs. The presentation speakers included: John F. Talbot, Ph.D., Vice President, Corporate…
Telehealth – What Will The Payers Change Post-COVID-19? Let’s Ask Them
This presentation was delivered on August 26, 2020 at The 2020 OPEN MINDS Management Best Practices Institute. In the presentation, the speakers discussed future reimbursement models and expected outcomes post-pandemic; how the payer focus on quality and performance will expand; and how you can collaborate with payers as they navigate a path to recovery. The…
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The New Role of Virtual Care in Behavioral Health
Recently Qualifacts and the National Council for Behavioral Health surveyed more than 1,000 behavioral health and human services providers about the role virtual care has played in their operations during the current COVID-19 crisis. We also wanted to know how they were handling a remote workforce, how their revenues had been affected and how their…
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Colorado Expands Medicaid Telehealth Access
On July 6, 2020, the Colorado legislature passed Senate Bill (SB) 212 to expand access to Medicaid telehealth services. The bill expands Medicaid coverage for telehealth services to include reimbursement at parity with in-person services at rural health clinics (RHCs), federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), and the Indian Health Service facilities. The list of covered…
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Don’t Leave Money On The Table: How The Right Technology Can Improve Your VBR Success
Originally presented on May 26th, 2021 Value-based care is here! If you haven’t started thinking about what it is you need to compete in a value-based environment, now is the time to start. With the rise in value-based care contracts and utilization of alternative payment models, provider organizations are challenged with doing the research and…
A Stable Connection Should Mean More Than Just a Strong Wi-Fi Signal: How to Keep Care Connections Personal in a Virtual World
Originally presented on 7/13/21 With the shift to virtual meetings and hybrid models to provide care to clients and consumers, the feeling that we’ve lost the connection of face-to-face interactions is real. Virtual fatigue leaves us all longing for the “human touch,” but telehealth and other developing forms of digital evaluation and treatment is here…
Value-Based Reimbursement Models Help SPARC Get A Leg Up In Medicaid Managed Care Contracting
By Meena Dayak SPARC Services & Programs (SPARC) is a behavioral health provider organization in North Carolina that has been providing home and community-based services since 2015. They serve 425 consumers monthly and employ 70 full-time staff. They focus on complex consumers—children and adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI) who have not been…
Making Value-Based Reimbursement Work – Best Practices In Program Design & Management
This executive web forum was delivered on May 13, 2021, by Ashley Gibson Director Of Payer Relations, Contracts & Utilization, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation and Donna Esposito, Director of Payer Relations, THRIVE DETECT, who shared their advice on how to negotiate, design, and implement a successful VBR relationship with a health plan. Download Resources
Don’t Leave Money On The Table: How The Right Technology Can Improve Your VBR Success
Value-based care is here! If you haven’t started thinking about what it is you need to compete in a value-based environment, now is the time to start. With the rise in value-based care contracts and utilization of alternative payment models, provider organizations are challenged with doing the research and homework to get prepared for these…
The Future Is 2020 In The Rearview Mirror: A 2021 Forecast
The COVID-19 pandemic caused major shifts throughout organizations, industries, and the entire world. The behavioral health and human services market is no exception. As we look back on 2020, there were some short-term tactics that we anticipated would be around for a while to allow provider organizations to create stability, resiliency, and success while weathering…
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Don’t Leave Money On The Table: How The Right Technology Can Improve Your VBR Success
Originally presented on May 26th, 2021 Value-based care is here! If you haven’t started thinking about what it is you need to compete in a value-based environment, now is the time to start. With the rise in value-based care contracts and utilization of alternative payment models, provider organizations are challenged with doing the research and…
Value-Based Reimbursement Models Help SPARC Get A Leg Up In Medicaid Managed Care Contracting
By Meena Dayak SPARC Services & Programs (SPARC) is a behavioral health provider organization in North Carolina that has been providing home and community-based services since 2015. They serve 425 consumers monthly and employ 70 full-time staff. They focus on complex consumers—children and adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI) who have not been…
Don’t Leave Money On The Table: How The Right Technology Can Improve Your VBR Success
Value-based care is here! If you haven’t started thinking about what it is you need to compete in a value-based environment, now is the time to start. With the rise in value-based care contracts and utilization of alternative payment models, provider organizations are challenged with doing the research and homework to get prepared for these…
Why Measuring Performance & Tracking Outcomes Are Your Roadmap to Success: A Discussion With Eric Arnson, Chief Product Officer, Qualifacts + Credible
This presentation was delivered on March 10, 2021 at The OPEN MINDS Technology & Analytics Institute. In the presentation, the speakers highlighted the critical importance of your electronic health record’s (EHR) analytics and reporting functionality. The speakers discussed what is driving the trend towards greater need for outcomes tracking and reporting; how providers are using…
The Tech-Enabled Provider Organization: The 2020 <em>OPEN MINDS</em> Health & Human Service Technology Survey
As the health and human service market shifts to value-based reimbursement with a focus on cost and quality, specialty provider organizations will need to adopt new technologies to survive. Increasingly, there is a need for population health management, data exchange, and clinical decision support tools. For executives, linking technology investment to strategy is essential to…
Preparing For The Unknown: A Sneak Peak At The 2020 National EHR Survey Results
The COVID-19 pandemic created substantial change across the health and human services industry. To understand the changes made and planned for EHR functionality during this changing time, we surveyed over 5,000 behavioral health provider organizations on their EHR purchasing and implementation behavioral and functionality status. Get a sneak peak of the 2020 National Behavioral Health…
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