Behavioral Health Business April 2, 2024
Payers and providers are increasingly pushing for more measurement-based care in behavioral health.
However, in order for the change to work, key stakeholders, including clinicians and other behavioral health providers, need to buy in. This puts the onus on operators to make it easier for clinicians to implement measurement-based care, and for payers to foster a culture of transparency around data use.
Make it easy
One of the major obstacles in implementing measurement-based care is adding to provider’s workloads.
“I think to the extent that there’s pushback, to give the clinicians a fair shake, it’s work, and it’s uncompensated work,” Dr. Ravi Shah, chief medical officer at Geode Health, said during Behavioral Health Business’ VALUE events. “I think it’s really,...