Planning For The New Managed Care

I spent the day in a session, Marketing To Managed Care: Issues In Providing Mental Health Services For Commercial Insurance & Managed Care Plans, led by my colleague, OPEN MINDS Senior Associate Steve Ramsland, Ed.D. His opening question – are you focused solely on yesteryear’s payers and contracts? Or are you looking ahead to the payers and contracts you will need in a managed care world?

While managed care has been around for years, we are seeing new consumers in managed care plans and new managed care markets. For the first time, many states are mandating that individuals with . . .