Behavioral Health Business December 4, 2023
Payers and providers have struggled to draw out a roadmap for value-based care in addiction treatment. As a result, the adoption of value-based contracting in substance use care remains low.
Still, some payers and providers blazed the trail over the past several years, highlighting some core do’s and don’ts for value-based care contracting.
“I’ve been hearing for 10 years that we’re on the edge of this,” Dr. Tom Britton, CEO of American Addiction Centers, told Behavioral Health Business. “Maybe we are? It’s happening in other disciplines for chronic disease … and I think many of them are working.”
Brentwood, Tennessee-based American Addiction Centers operates 10 treatment centers and corresponding outpatient and telehealth services.
The medical community broadly agrees there is...