As we’ve discussed before on the BestNotes blog, value-based care is becoming the future of U.S. healthcare. However, most value-based payment (VBP) models have focused on physical health rather than behavioral health. The law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, under its Manatt Health division, recently created a report for the California Health Care…
As the U.S. healthcare landscape moves from fee-for-service to value-based payment (VBP) models, value-based care has been difficult to implement for behavioral health and addiction treatment. A new model from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, however, could help encourage broader VBP adoption in behavioral health. Blue Cross NC’s New Model Blue Cross…
Value-based payment (VBP) models and value-based care have been difficult to implement, and behavioral health in particular has been slow to adopt VBP models. However, this year saw significant changes toward the implementation of VBP that providers should know about. Key payers and providers, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), announced in…