
Managing Total Cost of Care
Addressing behavioral health conditions are a significant driver for improved life and health outcomes. More payers than ever are tying their performance-based incentives to integrated care to lower the total cost of care. Our resources collect, collate, and distribute tips and strategies for successfully managing total cost of care as a behavioral health provider. From engaging the un-engageable to collaborating with physical health providers in a clinically integrated delivery system—our resources bring information to on-the-ground care managers and C-Suite strategists to assist you in being a part of successful value-based delivery of care model.
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Trauma-Informed Care As Culture
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS Once strictly a clinical approach, trauma-informed care (TIC) is now a pathway for improving consumer experience as well as clinical outcomes […]
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Out With Agile
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS Agile is out. Projects are in. That was the message of an article, The Project-Driven Organization, that caught my attention. The premise—Agile […]
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Rewriting The County Playbook
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS The past year’s many shifts in federal health and human service policies have brought a host of “trickle down” effects to […]
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Medical Loss Ratio As Market Shaper
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS I’ve long viewed the medical loss ratio (MLR) requirements established under the Affordable Care Act as an important consumer protection. By […]
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The State Of It All
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS If you want to see the future of the health and human service market, don’t look to Washington—watch the states. The […]
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Queue The Cure
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS Technology and analytics are an important ingredient in almost every domain of health and human services—including crisis services. That was the […]
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Caring More
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS The cost of Medicaid services has the attention of state legislatures. Colorado is assessing their options. The Colorado Medicaid Provider Rate […]
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Clearing The LTSS Landscape
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS Total long-term services and supports (LTSS) spending was $563.7 billion, or 13.7% of the $4.1 trillion spent on personal health care […]
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Can We Do Better Than Airlines?Â
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS “Can we do better than the airlines?” That was the provocative question asked by Matthew O. Hurford, M.D., Chief Executive Officer of […]
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Disruption Is The New Normal
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS No one likes to change. That probably explains the 30 million copies sold of Who Moved My Cheese? But for the past […]
