Managed Care Mag January 1, 2018
It’s 2018 and I’ve got a resolution for you—it’s time to get serious about population health. At first this may feel like we are retreading old ground. After all, we have talked about population health for years now. But while it’s one thing to keep talking about managing populations, it’s another thing entirely to redesign the model, put the pieces in place, and tackle the obstacles to deliver results.
For example, it is commonly understood that integrated behavioral health is a critical pillar of effective population health management, yet in many markets we continue to treat behavioral health as something totally separate—separate providers of course, but also separate payment, separate facilities, separate drug formularies, separate benefit design, separate everything.
If...