Value-Based Contracting
The OPEN MINDS 2024 Innovation Survey reveals that the biggest increase in value-based contracting was in care coordination models. By 2025, over 60% of healthcare payments will be tied to performance-based incentives, with behavioral health playing a key role. Every behavioral health provider needs the know-how to participate in value-based arrangements. Our value-based contracting resources offer the opportunity to optimize participation and performance in value-based arrangements including knowledge and information exchange about best practices for successful collaborations, contract negotiations, reimbursement valuations, member engagement, metric management, and more.
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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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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 […]
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Tracking The Upswing
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS The coverage of Medicare beneficiaries by ACOs is on the upswing—as is the use of risk-based reimbursement models. As of January 2026, […]
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Federal 2027 Budget Proposal Would Eliminate SAMHSA As Stand-Alone Agency & Reduce Behavioral Health Funding By 8%
By OPEN MINDS Circle A proposed 2027 federal health budget would eliminate the nation’s primary mental health and addiction agency and cut behavioral health funding by about 8%. The fiscal […]
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CMS Accepting Applications For The $100 Million MAHA Elevate Lifestyle Medicine Pilots To Address Chronic Disease Through Whole Person Care, Nutrition & Physical Activity
By OPEN MINDS Circle The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is accepting applications for a $100 million pilot program to test evidence-based lifestyle and functional medicine approaches for […]
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VBR Sputter or Surge?
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS Greetings from Clearwater Beach and the 2026 OPEN MINDS Performance Management Institute. This week, while I’m here with 650+ executives focused on performance optimization of […]
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Framework Proposed To Align Health System SDOH Initiatives With EHR & Value-Based Models
By OPEN MINDS Circle Researchers have proposed a framework and a roadmap for learning health systems (LHS) to advance equity in digital health care delivery by integrating data for social […]
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Navigating The Economics Of Value-Based Contracting
Value-based contracting (VBC) is transforming health care payment models, requiring organizations to understand the balance of risk, reward, and performance incentives. In this on-demand webinar, Lizzy Baum, MBA, Executive Director […]
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Improve Your CCBHC Earning Through Participation In A ONEcare Clinically Integrated Network
Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) are essential to expanding access to quality mental health and substance use care. But sustaining these efforts—and scaling their impact—requires partnership, coordination, and value-based […]
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OPEN MINDS & Alera Health Extend Premier Partnership To Build National Momentum For The Clinically-Integrated ONEcare Networks
Building The Service System Of The Future For High-Needs Populations Gettysburg, Pa. (August 24, 2025) – OPEN MINDS and Alera Health announced today the expansion of their partnership to organize […]