Behavioral health has lagged behind in the shift to value-based care, and a new paper from experts at Cigna outlines why these providers should consider making the switch along with the barriers they ...

Led by UPMC Health Plan's Chief Medical Officer, William Shrank, MD, and Chief Pharmacy Officer, Chronis Manolis, RPh – both of whom are nationally-recognized experts in pharmaceutical outcomes ...

The healthcare industry is slowly moving away from fee-for-service care models and toward value-based care — but contracting in these arrangements remains especially difficult for behavioral health ...

Basing payment on clinical outcomes rather than the volume of service is increasingly common among medical practitioners, yet value-based reimbursement is less common among mental health practices.

There is still a clear need for high-quality, evidence-based behavioral health care in the United States and one way to get there is through innovative payment models, including value-based care ...

One in five U.S. adults lives with a mental illness, but more than 160 million Americans live in areas with mental health professional shortages, a problem that’s predicted to worsen by 2030. Barriers ...

Hospital-led Solutions to a Growing Crisis report outlines five hospital case studies showing how systems are integrating ...

Health may be priceless, but healthcare is not. With medical costs on the rise, insurance companies and government payers are increasingly asking pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers to ...

With the recent Supreme Court ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, there is little doubt that CMS’ Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program will come to fruition. As the October 1, ...