Behavioral Health Business August 5, 2022
This article is sponsored by CHESS Health. This article is based on a Behavioral Health News Tech Talks virtual discussion with Hans Morefield, CEO of CHESS Health and Greg Williams, Co-Founder of Third Horizon Strategies and Managing Director of the Alliance for Addiction Payment Reform. The discussion took place virtually on June 7, 2022.
Health plans increasingly recognize the importance of addressing substance use disorder (SUD) among members because of the correlation on their total cost of care (3-4x the cost of members without SUD). At the same time, health plans are seeing rapidly increasing SUD treatment costs. For both reasons, the transition to value-based care for SUD treatment is accelerating to align provider incentives with health plan outcomes goals...