Moving Beyond The 10% To Be A ‘High Value’ Organization

We just wrapped the first day of The 2015 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Institute in lovely Clearwater, Florida. The day started with a thought-provoking opening address by Arthur C. Evans, Jr., Ph.D., Commissioner, Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health & Intellectual disAbility Services, A New Future For Behavioral Health: Using Public Health Models To Manage Population Health. He presented great information on how Philadelphia’s Medicaid managed care initiative has benefited from using public health improvement initiatives (the county is at risk for 417,000 Medicaid beneficiaries, see Monthly Physical Health Managed Care Program Enrollment Report). I walked away . . .