Attract More Patients by Promoting Your Success Rate Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Jan 30, 2020 Help your treatment program stand out by providing the information people searching for treatment are desperate for – hard data on your center’s success rate. Continue Reading...
Announcing the 2019 "Excellence in Treatment" Winners Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Oct 3, 2019 Sixteen leading addiction treatment centers applied for the 2019 Excellence in Treatment award by submitting six-month or twelve-month post-treatment outcomes results for their patients. Four treatment centers with the best post-treatment abstinence rates received awards. 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 4, 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...
Please Don't Shoot the Messenger! Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Jan 14, 2019 When the first J.D. Power surveys of car quality came out, the leaders of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler all wasted many years questioning the research methodology and pooh-poohing its findings. As Vista releases the first independent addiction treatment outcomes research in decades, we can’t afford the same kind of hubris. When addiction treatment fails, people die Continue Reading...
Achieving High Outcomes Research Response Rates Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Dec 13, 2018 Over the last 2½ years, Vista has attempted to contact more than 2,000 addiction treatment patients to learn how they’re doing post-treatment. As we’ve grown, we’ve learned that several factors have a strong impact on our ability to connect with the patients. Continue Reading...
Do You Really Want to Build Your Own Outcomes Management System? Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Feb 13, 2018 Now that many state licensing organizations have joined the Joint Commission in requiring treatment programs to use patient-reported feedback to inform clinical care, centers are exploring a variety of different options. Should you consider building your own? 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 20, 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...
Pay-For-Performance is Coming. Are You Ready? Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate May 21, 2016 I've recently returned from the 2016 Health Datapalooza conference, where it was absolutely clear that substance abuse treatment payment models are going to change drastically in the next few years. Continue Reading...
Think Your Center Does an Amazing Job Treating Addiction? Prove It! Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Apr 18, 2016 The problem that effective addiction treatment programs have is that without data there’s no way for prospective patients or payers to know how good they are. And this lack of data has life-and-death repercussions. Continue Reading...
Defining Addiction Treatment Outcomes Success Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Jan 25, 2016 As the brave new world of outcomes measurements comes to substance abuse treatment, one of the most important things is to agree on a simple, easy-to-understand definition of success. Continue Reading...