BlueCross BlueShield Starts Region’s First Value-Based Payment Model For Behavioral Health Care

BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York announced the region’s first behavioral health value-based payment agreement with Value Network — a behavioral health care collaborative with more than 100 area provider organizations, including BestSelf Behavioral Health, Endeavor Health Services, Horizon Health Services, and Spectrum Health and Human Services. The value-based payment model focuses on quality of care, rewards health care provider organizations for complete care management of consumers' health, and allows them to manage consumers with more flexibility.

BlueCross BlueShield is the first local health plan that will follow this approach, rewarding behavioral health providers for delivering quality mental . . .