Becker's Healthcare February 19, 2025
Value-based care in behavioral health is finally starting to catch up to other areas of healthcare, according to Stuart Lustig, MD, national medical executive for behavioral health strategy and product design at The Cigna Group.
There are several barriers that make it difficult to shift away from fee-for-service payments in behavioral health, Dr. Lustig said. Among them are slower adoption of electronic medical records, a reluctance to measure outcomes and challenges bringing mental health providers into payer networks.
“All of that has been changing in recent years. More provider groups have gotten bigger, have gotten electronic medical records and have built in the ability to analyze those records and report out on what’s happening at an individual level...
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