OPEN MINDS & Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc. To Host Webinar On What Is Top Of Mind For Health Plans For The Rest Of 2025
GETTYSBURG, PA. (May 11, 2025) — OPEN MINDS and Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc. are hosting a webinar on What’s Next For Health Plans & Their Behavioral Health Benefits In 2025?
What are the big issues for payers/health plans in the year ahead? And how will those ‘big issues’ reshape how payers/health plans are managing behavioral health services?
“Adjusting their strategic decisionmaking process will be a big stretch for some management teams—and not so much for others. said Monica E. Oss, CEO, OPEN MINDS. “One challenge every executive team will face is the need to speed up their decisionmaking process. A chaotic market favors the nimble.”
Join us at 1:00 pm ET on May 13, 2025 for this fireside chat on the current pressing issues faced by payers and health plans in the year ahead – and how those issues will change how they manage behavioral health benefits.
This lively discussion will look at the implications of enhanced parity requirements, NCQA HEDIS measures, high medical loss ratios, and more – across the Medicaid, Medicare, and commercial markets. Our experts will discuss what they are seeing as changes to behavioral health benefits and reimbursement for behavioral health services occur as health plans focus on improving the performance of their delivery systems.
Featuring:
Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, Senior Associate, OPEN MINDS*
Paul Duck, Chief Strategy Officer, OPEN MINDS*
Brad Harrison, Managed Market Liaison, Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc*
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.
For more information about OPEN MINDS’ management support expertise, go to https://openminds.com/about/
About The Trends Guide
Trends in Behavioral Health: A Reference Guide on the U.S. Behavioral Health Financing & Delivery System (The Trends Guide) provides information and insights into the multi-layered United States behavioral health system. The Trends Guide includes an in-depth view of current statistics, prevailing issues, and emerging trends in order to inform the discussions, debates and decision-making of policymakers, payers, providers, advocates and consumers. The Trends Guide addresses current behavioral health care trends topics, including:
- A look at the national policy that is shaping the U.S. health and human services market.
- A view of the state behavioral health delivery systems that were created by a combination of historical practices, federal and state policy, and market factors over recent years.
- An examination of the practices of health plans that manage both physical and behavioral health care for the vast majority of the U.S. population.
- A deep dive into behavioral health care access and delivery of care from the consumer perspective.
For additional questions and inquiries, please contact Murray Beachtel, Senior Associate, OPEN MINDS at 717-334-1329 or openminds@openminds.com.
The Trends In Behavioral Health Series is made available free of charge on its own website by Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc. as a unique contribution to help set higher standards for behavioral health policy and practice driven by the health plan perspective.
*Monica Oss and Paul Duck are paid consultants of Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. (OAPI). Brad Harrison is an employee of OAPI.
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