Tackling The Thorny Issue Of Behavioral Health ‘Value’

Health care policy has steadily shifted its focus from quantity to quality – with a slow but steady move towards more value-based reimbursement (VBR). This shift has led to many debates about whether and how to use VBR for behavioral health services.

We've covered this topic before (see For All The Performance Measurement, Are We Really Measuring Performance? and When Does Performance Not Matter?). But it jumped to top of mind again this week after I read two recent articles on the topic.

The first, Can We Pay for Performance in Behavioral Health Care?, is a literature review of . . .