The “Next Generation” Behavioral Health Carve-Out
At the start of the year, we wrote about one of the emerging trends from 2021—”integrated care” is increasingly happening via integration of consumer data and financial incentives—with physical location of service delivery of less importance. With the pandemic-driven adoption of virtual primary care, ‘integrated consumer data’ is now a euphemism for ‘integrated care”.
Interestingly, virtual primary care and integrated consumer data are driving another phenomenon—the return of the managed behavioral health carve-out. The big difference—the new managed behavioral health carve-out …