The Emerging Centers of Excellence: New Models Bring Interest for Dispersing Best Practices

OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry Analysis As our field continues to shift toward performance-based contracting, behavioral health and social service professionals know that they must move toward the use of evidence-based practices (EBPs). In some states, reimbursement structures are tied to performance, and contract opportunities are sometimes tied to the use of specific EBPs and treatment approaches. In order to survive in an increasingly competitive, outcomes-based market environment, behavioral health professionals need to move beyond proficiency and excel at best practice methods. One of the ways that states and other public . . .