The “Next Generation” Behavioral Health Carve-Out

At the start of the year, I wrote about one of the emerging trends from 2021—"integrated care” is increasingly happening via integration of consumer data and financial incentives (see For Integration, It’s The Information – A Trend Driving 2022 Strategy)—with physical location of service delivery of less importance. With the pandemic-driven adoption of virtual primary care, ‘integrated consumer data’ is now a euphemism for ‘integrated care”.
Interestingly, virtual primary care and integrated consumer data are driving another phenomenon—the return of the managed behavioral health carve-out. The big difference—the new managed behavioral health carve-out . . .