Apr 13, 2018
NAATP Meets with Insurance Industry: Conducts Training on How Payers Can recognize the Good Guys
This month, NAATP hosted a special webinar for members of The Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness (ABHW), the national voice for payers that manage behavioral health insurance benefits. The webinar was part of The National Association’s Quality Assurance Initiative (QAI) designed to ensure high quality ethical addiction treatment and restore payer and insurer confidence. ABHW member companies provide coverage to over 175 million people in both the public and private sectors to treat mental health, substance use disorders, and other behaviors that impact human health and wellness.
Over 150 representatives from eight of the largest behavioral health insurers attended the webinar, during which we presented The National Association’s work on the QAI, Code of Ethics “2.0” and Differentiating the Quality Provider. Attendees represented Aetna Behavioral Health, Anthem, Beacon Health Options, Centene Corporation, Cigna, New Directions Behavioral Health, Optum and Perform Care. The webinar was an important step in building better relationships with payers, demonstrating the values and ethics upheld within NAATP membership, and ensuring that payers may look to NAATP to discern quality care. As The National Association continues development of the QAI, we will also continue working to bridge the divide with payers, help to restore confidence in the field of addiction treatment and help demonstrate the value in authorizing adequate care for their insureds.
Provider-Payer Relationships will be a topic at NAATP’s National Addiction Leadership Conference this May in Denver. Cade Saurage, Director of UR and Strategic Partnerships at La Hacienda, will partner with Optum/UBH staff in Quality Assurance Session II, Managed Care Partnering: From UR Ethics to UR Strategy.
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