Successful Approaches

Effective management of mental health benefits has been an elusive part of healthcare for many years.

Because there are no blood tests to evaluate someone's mental health, payers and providers have struggled to work together traditionally. Payers are skeptical that providers embellish the patient's problems in order to get paid and providers complain that payers tie their hands so they can't provide the care that is needed.

Behavioral Health Strategies has successfully managed mental health benefits under both capitation and fee-for-service payment models for over 20 years and has developed effective strategies to manage the cost by focusing on prevention and partnering with providers to do what is in the best interest of the patient.