Behavioral health crises rarely manifest overnight. For health plans, the warning signs are hiding in plain sight – as data points scattered across disconnected systems, locked in outdated records, or ...

Would it have under Trump 2.0? As a second Trump administration takes shape, concerns are mounting over the future of behavioral health progress in federal policy. The reasons include proposed steep ...

Specialty behavioral health practices will be incentivized to coordinate comprehensive health. The CMS Innovation Center will soon issue a Notice of Funding Opportunity for its new Innovation in ...

St. Louis-based SSM Health is working to bring more specialty care under value-based compensation models over the next two years, as the health system seeks to extend physician accountability for ...

This article presents challenges and solutions regarding health care–focused large language models (LLMs) and summarizes key recommendations from major regulatory and governance bodies for LLM ...

Since the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has piloted more than 50 alternative payment models (APMs) ...

Payment models developed by the CMS Innovation Center generally aren’t saving Medicare money, according to an analysis by consultancy Avalere Health. But some models were successful at reducing costs, ...

At its core, public health communication is about connecting with people—not just delivering facts, but designing messages that reflect what people need, fear and value. What’s often overlooked is ...