The Challenge Of Making Best Practice Adoption Happen – The Payer Perspective

A couple of weeks ago, a news release caught my attention – In Philadelphia’s Mental Health Clinics, Use of Evidence-based Therapies for Youth Psychiatric Treatment is Slow to Catch On, Despite Investments. The study from the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS) in the City of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine found that investments in evidence-based practices resulted in a moderate increase (6%) between 2013 and 2017 in the use of cognitive behavioral therapy among clinical professionals serving Philadelphia youth.

What was that investment? In 2013, DBHIDS in the City of Philadelphia created the Evidence-Based . . .