The Big Target For Specialty Provider Organizations—The Cost Of Comorbid Chronic Disease

In creating proposed models for value-based reimbursement of specialty provider organizations, one of the goals of our team is to link specialty provider organization "performance" to the total cost of consumer care. This is a bigger goal—but also provides a bigger role for specialty provider organizations in the health care system since behavioral health and long-term care services together are only about 15% of the total health care spend.

I was reminded of this while reading our recent article about the cost of chronic health care conditions—of which the direct and indirect costs of chronic illness . . .