The United States has seen a relatively slow increase in spending on health care per capita over the past several years. However, policy analysts and health economists are projecting a significant trend upwards of 5.5%, year over year, in spending […]
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Mitigating Downside Financial Risk In VBR Arrangements: Building The Necessary Infrastructure & Team in Integrated Care
High utilizers of health care services have been a hot topic of discussion across the behavioral health and primary care space in recent years. As pointed out in the white paper Reducing SMI Healthcare Costs Through Collaboration & Data Integration, […]
The Growing Push For Medicaid ACOs
Since the signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), accountable care organizations have grown in popularity, with 17.2 million beneficiaries in commercial ACOs and 14.6 million in Medicare ACOs. But there is another category that, while slower […]
What Are Health Plans Actually Doing?
Well, the results are in. A survey of the health plans focused on their management approaches for better serving consumers with behavioral health disorders and complex support needs brought a few results that surprised even me. The big takeaways? Specialty […]
Coming Up With The Next Big Thing
My past few days have been full of discussion of change and new developments that are showing up in the field—smartphone-based web apps for consumer engagement, new programs to provide social supports to health plan members, national ranking systems for […]
