E13 - Quality Outcomes and Behavioral Health Treatment: Improving Adoption of Measurement-informed Care

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM

Location: 303 AB, Level 2, LACC

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Relias, LLC and National Council for Mental Wellbeing guarantee this educational conference is free from bias.

Moderator(s)

Caroline Davidson, MPH (she/her/hers)

Director, Practice Improvement & Consulting
National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Washington, District of Columbia

Workshop Presenter(s)

Jeff Capobianco, PhD

Senior Consultant
National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Washington, DC, District of Columbia
Deborah Scharf PhD Scharf, PhD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor, Psychology
Lakehead University
Thunder Bay, Ontario

Slides
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Melissa Nossal, PsyD

Vice President, Behavioral Health Services
Pittsburgh Mercy

Quality measures in behavioral health that include measurement of outcomes, particularly valid and structured measures currently mandated or otherwise used are not always very feasible to collect or useful operationally. A team of national experts will explore commonly used national behavioral health measures, their impact related to patient care, value, feasibility of data collection and provider burden and investigate challenges and opportunities to improve the way we use measurement to inform treatment in delivering whole person care.

Learning Objectives:

Examine the current state of measurement-based care in health care and the opportunity to adjust this concept in behavioral health settings and explore how measurement, while critical to quality care, informs treatment, alongside other factors including social determinants of health (SDOH).
Identify existing sets of behavioral health measures, including those used in HEDIS and CMS Physician Performance as well as alternative measures approved by NQF and NCQA to recognize validity, feasibility to accurately collect and utility in managing routine clinical care and for value-based care.
Gather expert recommendations on improving available measures and exploring novel measures for future testing.