Providing Health Insurance Payers with the Data They Care About Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Nov 29, 2023 Based on the many discussions I’ve had with treatment center leaders over the years, I suspect that negotiating with health insurance payers for a fair reimbursement rate is one of (if not the most) challenging aspects of running a treatment center. And it seems to be getting even harder. Continue Reading...
How to Convince Payers to Invest in High-Quality Addiction Treatment Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Nov 15, 2023 Close to half (47%) of the members of the health insurance company with the best outcomes reported successfully abstaining from alcohol and non-prescribed drugs for at least the last 30 days one year after treatment. At the other end of the spectrum, less than Continue Reading...
Get 13% More Days Approved Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Nov 22, 2022 One of the factors that has the biggest impact on how well a patient does after treatment is how long the patient stays in treatment. Yet an ongoing challenge for many treatment centers is payer demands that a patient step down to a lower level of care more quickly than the clinical team thinks is appropriate. Continue Reading...
How Do Your Treatment Completion Rates Compare? Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Jun 29, 2021 We've been surprised by the wide range of treatment completion rates among our clients. Among short-term residential treatment programs attending an Outcomes Summit, the percentage of patients who successfully completed treatment ranged between 43% and 97%. Continue Reading...
On-Demand: Get More Days Approved Webinar Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Oct 26, 2020 Listen in as KerryLynn Baca-Pelphrey shares what she's learned during 15 years of payer negotiations about how to use patient data to get more days approved and negotiate higher reimbursement rates. Continue Reading...
What Is It Costing You Not to Do Outcomes Research? Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Oct 7, 2020 Many treatment centers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on marketing to get prospective patients to pick up the phone. But they never think about how many of these prospects they’re losing because they can’t answer the second most-commonly-asked question of prospective patients - Continue Reading...
Introducing Conquer Addiction with Rehab Success Ratings! Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Jun 9, 2020 Conquer Addiction will officially launch its searchable database of addiction treatment centers on June 30th, allowing families to search for rehabs which have proven through well-designed outcomes research that they’re providing effective treatment for the first time! Continue Reading...
On Demand Webinar: Outcomes = Income Webinar Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Sep 23, 2019 Join Elevated Billing's Jessica Anderson, Avea's Ben Dittman and Vista's Joanna Conti as they discuss the data you need to pull together to prepare for a critical payer negotiation Continue Reading...
Preparing for Your Next Payer Negotiation Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Sep 3, 2019 Your ability to convince key payers of the unique value your addiction treatment center provides is crucial to your ability to stay in business. Identify one or two things that your center does uniquely well and that are major pain points for the payer. Continue Reading...
Preparing to Thrive in the Pay-For-Value World Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Jul 19, 2016 Most addiction treatment and behavioral health providers know that major change is coming to the industry, but few are making the preparations necessary to take advantage of it. Continue Reading...