Addiction By The Numbers

How should addiction treatment programs be evaluated? That was the focus of the session, Quality Measurement In Addiction Treatment: Advancing Adoption Of Best Practices, at The 2019 OPEN MINDS Management Best Practices Institute, featuring Samantha Arsenault, MA, Vice President of National Treatment Quality Initiatives, Shatterproof; Eric Bailly, LPC, LADC, Business Solutions Director, Anthem, Inc.; and Doug Nemecek, M.D., MBA, Chief Medical Officer – Behavioral Health, Cigna.

Shatterproof, with a coalition of payers and other interested stakeholders, is taking on the challenge of quantifying the effectiveness of addiction treatment programs. Why? There is large variation in the use of evidence-based . . .