A Partnership to Develop Behavioral Health Quality and Performance Measures

The New York State Medicaid program is pursuing reforms that would shift reimbursement from fee-for-service to value-based models. Behavioral health populations and services are key to these reforms, but important gaps exist in the breadth and relevance of available quality measures for the behavioral health field. This column describes how the state addressed these gaps by using both inter- and intra-agency collaborations. As part of this...