Thanks to everyone who made it to the Nashville panel discussion, Innovative Strategies for Combating the Opioid Epidemic in the United States.

A special thanks to our Moderator and Panelists:

Kevin Lee (Moderator), CEO, Recovery Club America

Hon. James “Jim” Carroll – Former Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy

Eric Gremminger – CEO, ERPHealth

Siobhan Morse – Divisional Director of Clinical Services/Special Project & Research at UHS

Dr. Brian Wind – Chief Clinical Officer, Regard Recovery

It was a lively, solution focused discussion in which we covered a range of topics. Here are some key takeaways:

• Expect a continued move towards value-based care in the behavioral health space. Government and commercial insurers will continue to pivot away from the traditional fee-for-service model.
• If providers are going to remain viable in the coming years, they will have to have a way to verify outcomes via a third party source.
• Establishing broad consensus on effective outcomes is one of the more challenging tasks for payers and providers across the behavioral health spectrum.
• Providers who are tracking outcomes in a multitude of domains will be at an advantage in negotiating value-based care deals as well as better in-network rates.
• Third party outcome data will promote health equity by offering verified results as it relates to specific demographic groups in the United States
• Identifying culturally appropriate recovery resources will improve population health at scale.

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