How Does Your State Medicaid Program Stack-Up On Behavioral Health?

The focus on value has created "measurement fatigue" and "outcomes confusion" among managers of health and human service organizations. The problem is straightforward—to pay based on value, you need measures of "performance." The challenge for most provider organizations is that payers and health plans require reporting on different measures. This is a problem we've written about before in Are You Suffering From Measurement Fatigue?; New Measures Hit The Streets; and When It Comes To Performance Measurement, The “Work” Is Never Done.

In an attempt to create a standardized set of measures for states and health plans, the Centers . . .