As behavioral health provider organizations face mounting pressures – declining reimbursement rates, regulatory complexity, and severe workforce shortages – those executive teams who focus on building lean, efficient models versus simply pursuing expansion will come out ahead. This need for a ‘margin mindset’ is the conclusion of a new analysis – Behavioral Health Leaders Need A Margin Mindset As Disruption Sweeps The Sector.

But the question is – what’s the ‘margin mindset’ that leaders should adopt? The authors describe it as one of being positioned to seize new opportunities by focusing on profitable growth and minimum performance levels across the organization, down to the clinic or business unit level. The margin mindset means focusing both on growth and profitability simultaneously –…