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The use of measurement-based care (MBC) centers on the use of regular patient-reported outcome measures throughout their treatment. When MBC is used within a patient's standard care, it provides powerful insights to identify treatment targets, determine progress based on symptomology changes, inform adjustments to a shared treatment plan, strengthen the therapeutic alliance, and achieve timely outcomes. This training will introduce MBC as a data-driven method to utilize in VBP to achieve high-quality outcomes.

This session will provide an orientation to quality initiatives implemented by MCOs in their managed care contracts. The session will explain the importance of these quality initiatives, the associated performance measurement reporting, and the contract terms that implement those quality initiatives. In addition, participants will be introduced to the VBP pathway so that regardless of current state of readiness, participants can understand the expectations of quality and be prepared to meaningfully assess these expectations in a VBP contract.

Advances in digital technologies and data analytics have created unparalleled opportunities to assess health data accelerating the ability of science to understand and contribute to improved health behavior and health outcomes. Additionally, behavioral health in the United States is being challenged to address persistent health inequities while improving the quality and value of the care delivered. As regulators, payors, and policies push behavioral health toward data-driven performance, the pressure for behavioral health providers to measure and monitor outcomes increases. This training will introduce providers to the key facets of using data to drive performance including metric selection, diagnosing performance issues and acting on data, driving innovation, and making data analytics a central part of the behavioral health quality strategy.