Integrate From A ‘Position Of Strength’

The key message delivered by BayMark Health Services Chief Executive Officer David K. White, Ph.D., during his 2018 OPEN MINDS Management Best Practices Institute session, The Future Of National Specialty Organizations: Where Do Specialists Fit In An Integrated World? was that behavioral health specialists are increasingly recognized as critical to overall health care—and this has renewed the focus on integration. He gave a pointed example from his perspective as the CEO of an organization focused on addiction treatment—the incremental health care spending associated with a first episode of opioid abuse, dependence, or overdose/poisoning was $14,810 . . .