Behavioral Health Business April 9, 2024
Value-based care and parity go hand-in-hand as the behavioral health industry continues to evolve beyond the fee-for-service paradigm.
The interrelatedness of the two concepts often means that progress on one indirectly impacts the other. Moving toward either comes with several hurdles that require cash to fuel efforts to surmount them.
Where things stand now, patients and providers bear the burden of bringing behavioral health to value-based care. Adding insult to injury, many of the required investments to achieve either value-based care or parity come with significant capital and time investments and no way to get paid for being innovative.
“Whether it’s parity, whether it’s the history of not getting electronic health record incentives … that have put behavioral health behind...