The Blues Move To Value—Will Others Follow?

In the past two weeks, we've covered two initiatives sponsored by Blues plans to move behavioral health to some value-based arrangement.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina launched a new value-based purchasing (VBP) model, Blue Premier Behavioral Health, which allows behavioral health professionals who either meet or exceed quality benchmarks to earn higher reimbursement rates (see Blue Cross NC Launches New Value-Based Payment Model For Behavioral Health). In New York, BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York (BCBSWNY) announced that it entered into a value-based reimbursement (VBR) arrangement with Value Network (see BlueCross BlueShield . . .