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 providers, according to Taft Parsons III, chief psychiatric officer at CVS Health/Aetna. He highlighted this issue during a panel discussion on Tuesday at the Behavioral Health Tech conference…

The 2025 CMS PFS Rule landed with a bang, and it’s not just the weight of the 3,088 pages. We’re one year closer to 2030, the year that CMS intends to have all Traditional Medicare patients in a relationship with a clinician who is accountable for total cost of care. The push to the finish…

The connection between behavioral health and physical health is well-documented. Physical health is greatly affected by such behaviors as smoking, substance abuse, poor diet, lack of exercise, insufficient sleep and more. In addition, mental health issues and social determinants of health, such as lack of housing or transportation, language barriers, and food insecurity, impact health….

Value-based care has been heralded as the future of healthcare for more than a decade, but it has yet to fully arrive. This gap is particularly evident in primary care, which must be on board if the promise of value-based care (VBC) is to be achieved. The Commonwealth Fund, a private U.S. foundation dedicated to…

With one year remaining before mandatory APP Reporting in 2026, the idea that you’re already late may sound exaggerated. But consider the significance of what you’re undertaking: This is your first effort to report quality on all your beneficiaries, not just a tiny sliver of patients. It’s a huge leap that requires a lot of…

Many healthcare leaders were elated when officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on October 29 released the 2023 calendar-year results for the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), the program run by the Medicare program with the largest number of participating accountable care organizations (ACOs). As the press release from CMS on…