OPEN MINDS Announces Two Seminars Slated For The 2024 Performance Management Institute – Value-Based Partnerships Plus Growth Via Mergers & Acquisitions

Gettysburg, PA. (November 12, 2023) — On February 13th, OPEN MINDS will hold two half-day seminars at The 2024 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Institute in Clearwater Beach, Florida – one on growth through mergers and acquisitions; the other on successful value-based health plan partnerships.

The day will kick off with Getting To The Right Scale: The OPEN MINDS Executive Seminar On Growth Through Mergers, Acquisitions & Affiliations led by OPEN MINDS Senior Associates Ken Carr and Joe Naughton-Travers, EdM. Back by popular demand, and updated with new market models, this seminar will examine growth strategies and successful implementation plans from previous combinations and collaborations occurring in the health and human services field.

Attendees will discover how to design effective strategies for growth and scale, assess options for growth – from investors to mergers, and identify prospective organizational partners, and how to overcome the challenges to create successful collaborations.

Then, later in the same day, we dive into strategies for How To Build (& Succeed With) Value-Based Payer Partnerships: An OPEN MINDS Executive Seminar On Best Practices In Marketing, Negotiating & Contracting With Health Plans.

This half-day event is focused on practical strategies that your organization can implement to develop and thrive in payer relationships. OPEN MINDS industry experts Richard Louis, III, Vice President, Western Region, and Christy Dye, MPH, Senior Associate, will break down processes for determining what metrics payers are tied to, aligning programs and services with the goals of the payers in your market, and how to showcase data in a way that proves your service lines can achieve both high-quality outcomes and lower costs.

About the presenters:

• Ken Carr, Senior Associate at OPEN MINDS, brings more than 20 years of finance, technology, data analysis, and reporting experience in the health and human services field to OPEN MINDS. In his current role, he has served as a subject matter expert, leading numerous engagements in strategic planning, merger and acquisition prospecting, business process improvement, financial analysis of service lines, and technology selection.

• Christy Dye, MPH, Senior Associate at OPEN MINDS, is a data-focused health care executive with more than 30 years of experience supporting providers, payers, state agencies, and communities in achieving their business, operational, and quality goals in health and human services. Christy’s career has included working as a state Medicaid leader, a national expert in substance abuse treatment systems, and as chief executive for Arizona’s leading integrated behavioral health provider.

• Richard Louis, III, Vice President, Western Region, at OPEN MINDS, has extensive experience as a behavioral health care administrator, business development specialist, and innovator of new service lines for behavioral health care organizations. He specializes in the development of innovative and profitable integrated behavioral health treatments and population health management solutions that target high-cost and complex behavioral health populations.

• Joe Naughton-Travers, EdM, Senior Associate at OPEN MINDS, brings 30 years of experience in private and public sector delivery of behavioral health and social services. For the past decade, over half of his consulting practice has focused on aiding organizations in technology selection and implementation. Including all aspects of strategic technology planning, functional specifications development, request for proposal development, vendor selection, and contracting.

The 2024 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Institute held February 13 through 15, the premier executive event for performance optimization in organizations serving consumers with complex needs.

Attendees will discover strategies for improving hybrid service delivery, cultivating payer relations, creating interoperability, developing service line sustainability, and more. Executive attendees will have the opportunity to learn from other industry leaders who have successfully created innovative, metrics-based approaches to improving outcomes and organizational performance.

Register today for this premier institute at https://openminds.com/register-now-pmi2. Registrations for the seminars are included with the All-Access Institute Pass to The 2024 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Institute.

Registration cost is included in Elite-level memberships to the OPEN MINDS Circle Market Intelligence Service. For more information on the program, sponsorship opportunities, or media inquiries, contact the Executive Education & Events team at 717-334-1329 or events@openminds.com.

The institute is made possible by OPEN MINDS educational partners. These partners include:

• Premier Partners:  NephU, Netsmart, NextGen Healthcare, PsychU, Qualifacts
• Gold Partners: Alera Health, ContinuumCloud, Core Solutions, Inc, Easterseals Midwest, Easterseals UCP – North Carolina & Virginia, LifeSkills, Project HOME, Otsuka Market Access, Streamline Healthcare Solutions, Volunteers Of America
• Affiliate Education Sponsors: 5e Analytics, Altruix Pharmacy, Augintel, Awake Labs, Brightside Health, Cantata Health Solutions, Carelon Behavioral Health, CCNY Inc., Concord Technologies, Eleos Health, Evernorth, eVero, Exym, Five Points Technology Group, Genoa Healthcare, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, Health Information Management Systems (HiMS), Humana Healthy Horizons, i3 Healthcare Solutions, Inovalon, Integrative, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Millin Associates, Sigmund Software, The BI Collaborative, Waypoint Interactive, ZMark Health

About OPEN MINDS

OPEN MINDS is a national market intelligence, management consulting, and marketing services firm specializing exclusively in the markets of the health and human service field that serve consumers with chronic conditions and complex support needs. OPEN MINDS mission is to provide payers, service provider organizations, and technology and scientific firms that serve these consumers with the market and management knowledge needed to improve their organizational efficiency and effectiveness.