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Think Replacement
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS Greetings from “The Big Easy” and the first day of the 2026 OPEN MINDS Strategy & Innovation Institute. I spent the day with […]
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Moving Ahead With Social Â
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS Addressing health-related social needs reduces the total cost of care. That was the central finding of a recently released evaluation of accountable health communities—Accountable Health […]
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Preventing The Drift
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS Health care bankruptcies dropped in 2025—21% year-over-year from 2024, according to a recent analysis, Healthcare Restructuring: Trends And Outlook. But bankruptcies in […]
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For Integration Success, Digital Anyone?
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS Whole person care is certainly the goal of most payer and health plan executives—and preferred by consumers. For provider organization executives, the […]
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Crafting Crisis
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS A little over 5% of all emergency department visits (5,215 of 100,000 visits) in the U.S. were for mental health issues. […]
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Finding ROI In MOUD
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS The consumer outcome benefits of medication-assisted addiction treatment (MAT) for addictions are well documented, including higher remission, increased odds of survival, […]
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The Risk Plunge
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS Many provider organization executives are “undecided” about the wisdom of pursuing performance-based or value-based reimbursement (VBR) with downside financial risk. I’ve […]
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The Integrated Care Recipe
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS One of the most common models for integrating primary and behavioral health services is the Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model (CoCM). And the […]
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The Ripple Effect
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS There has been a lot of confusion about how last year’s Congressional budget bill, coined the One Big Beautiful Bill Act […]
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When You’ve Seen One
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS Getting your arms around the current state of risk-based, value-based, and performance-based reimbursement in the health care field is no simple […]
