Billing For Behavioral Health: Top Five Issues Facing Agencies In 2018

Sponsored by The Echo Group Do you know the difference between “Pay for Performance” versus “Pay for Reporting”? What about “Prospective Payment” versus “Capitation”? 2018 brings changes and challenges to behavioral health billing, many of which involve understanding how specific reimbursement methodologies based not only on the services provided, but also the related clinical outcomes Most of which will affect your ability to be reimbursed for services rendered and the care you provide. Echo Senior Knowledge Engineer Suki Norris, will review her list of the top reimbursement issues coming in 2018 and identify the relevance of each for specific types of behavioral health organizations. Learning Objectives:

• Identify and define the changes
• Prioritize the changes by relevance to organizations
• Defining and capturing quality measures
• Understand how claims data and clinical data is used to determine the quality of the services provided.