Behavioral Health Business October 24, 2023
Value-based care has been a buzzword for decades in behavioral health, but the bulk of providers have yet to make the leap from fee-for-service to a risk-bearing or even cost-savings model.
This could be changing as payers begin to prioritize value-based care contracts. In turn, this could reshape dynamics between providers and their investor partners.
While some investors are ready to dip their toes into the value-based care market, many question the evolving payer landscape and how behavioral health providers get credit for physical health outcomes.
“Reimbursement is an important part of these innovative care models. I think that’s coming faster than we think in the behavioral health space,” Corbin Petro, founder of Eleanor Health, told Behavioral Health Business. “I...