Behavioral Health Business October 17, 2023
Payers have increasingly pushed for measurement-based care, but experts question whether the behavioral health industry has the tools to broadly implement the practice.
Measurement-based care, in which clinical data is collected throughout treatment, may increase the likelihood that a patient receives evidence-based care. Implementing the practice requires a whole-person approach that includes contextualization and cultural awareness, according to panelists who spoke at the 2023 HLTH conference.
There is no one measure to demonstrate that a behavioral health patient is improving, which complicates broad implementation of measurement-based care in the space.
“Behavioral health is complex,” Nicole Christian-Brathwaite, head of medical and clinical strategy at Headway, said at HLTH’s Measuring the Mind panel. “It’s both an art and a science. We know...
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