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Is Integration with Primary Care Bad for Behavioral Health and Addiction Treatment Organizations?

Should we fear integrated care or embrace it as the future of addiction treatment?

Why Are Addiction Treatment Centers Less Likely to Use EHRs Than Other Mental Health Facilities? 

Did you know that addiction treatment facilities have one of the lowest penetrations of EHR usage of any healthcare provider type?

Is Credentialing or Enrolling with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Worth it for Addiction Treatment Providers?

There are many pros to enrolling with BCBSM. For one, you’ll find that it is easier to attract addiction treatment patients when you are in network with BCBSM. This is huge because BCBSM is such a large payer in the area and commands such a large market share of patients.

Mastering The ASAM Criteria for Addiction Treatment is More Important Than Ever Before

Whether you refer to it as the “Six Dimensions,” The ASAM Criteria or simply a “biopsychosocial,” the ASAM Criteria has come to dominate the landscape of multidimensional assessment in the addiction treatment community.

Contingency Management is Coming. Is Your Addiction Treatment Center Ready?

Contingency Management is a treatment modality that intermittently rewards clean time and program participation with cash or prizes. While some have moral objections to “paying an addict to get sober,” others point to the fact that, unlike a lot of treatments for meth, cocaine and stimulant abuse, Contingency Management (CM) actually works.

Even Post-Pandemic, Virtual Addiction Treatment Care Will be Here to Stay

Surveys show that 2 in 3 addiction treatment providers who adopted telehealth in response to the pandemic will maintain a telehealth presence after the pandemic wanes. Why?


Has Your Addiction Treatment Center Nailed Outcomes Tracking Yet? Here's Why It's More Critical Than Ever

Large-scale research for addiction treatment lags far behind research for other health conditions. As an industry, we’ve been slow to move towards standardized models for understanding and evaluating the success of our work. That’s changing now as market forces are requiring the addiction treatment to undertake objective progress monitoring and outcomes tracking as never before.