Events

Under value-based reimbursement, general healthcare providers are challenged to improve patients’ health while decreasing costs. Administrators realize the importance of behavioral health issues, but they’re not sure how to address them. Ample research documents that behavioral screening and intervention (BSI) – a package of alcohol and drug screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT), smoking screening and cessation services, and depression screening and collaborative care – would help general healthcare settings meet their new goals, but few have implemented it. Come learn how treatment programs that offer BSI can establish valuable partnerships with general healthcare organizations, create a new referral pipeline, and thrive under value-based reimbursement.

Learning Objectives

• Explain the incentives created by value-based reimbursement programs and how addressing behavioral risks and disorders would meet those incentives.
• Delineate the process of behavioral screening and intervention (BSI) and how it would help general healthcare providers meet their goals under value-based reimbursement.
• Describe best practices for implementing BSI in general healthcare settings.