Behavioral/Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders (SUD) Innovations for Medicaid, Medicare, and Duals

Behavioral/Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders (SUD) Innovations for Medicaid, Medicare, and Duals is organized by Strategic Solutions Network (SSN) and will be held from Jul 22 - 23, 2025 at The Westin Alexandria Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America.

Description:
This unique event is designed to help you overcome the biggest challenge in Mental/Behavioral and SUD: Resource Constraints that Limit Access and Care. We will provide a roadmap to dealing with key constraints and obstacles in behavioral health integration including accessibility and resource constraints, the next phase of integrated and coordinated care models, narrowing the gap of care through a comprehensive, multi- perspective, action-driven agenda. Featuring presentations from across the mental/behavioral continuum

Limited Accessibility & Resources to Care:

• Evaluating the effectiveness of short-term interventions
• Identifying and addressing issues related to access and network inadequacies
• Eliminating provider burnout
• Treating cognitive disorders in primary care
• Responding to the short- and long-term effects of limited resources in behavioral health

The Next Phase of Integrated & Coordinated Care Models:

• Addressing the untreated or undertreated areas of behavioral health in primary care settings
• Setbacks and accolades for integrated care models: How does a good integrated care model run?
• Coordinated care models: One size does not fit all!
• Integrating mental health and SUD into primary care settings

VBC Payer Strategies:

• Advancing VBC, waivers, bonuses, quality with holds, incentives, etc. and minimizing the biggest limiting factor in behavior health progress
• Revamping new models of behavioral care by eliminating administrative barriers and increasing payment rates
• Payer strategies and VBC
• Assessing how value-based payment models influence the quality, efficiency, and sustainability of behavioral health care

Narrowing the Gap of Care through Virtual/Digital Care for Behavioral Health:

• Utilizing telehealth and virtual care to increase accessibility
• How is AI being used in the treatment for mental health and Substance Use Disorders?
• The use of telepsychiatry to improve VBC fir behavioral health
• Evaluating the technology landscape for quality and efficacy
• Building a dependable infrastructure for advanced technology in behavioral health

Data, Predictive Analytics, Interoperability, & Infrastructure in Behavioral Health:

• Creating a robust data infrastructure for behavioral health
• Filling the gaps of care with better data analytics and predictive modeling for better behavioral health outcomes
• Capturing, reporting, and measuring data for earlier intervention and better outcomes
• Get the latest on natural language processing
• Current interoperability challenges and potential solutions

SDoMH through a Diversity Lens:

• Improving mental health for marginalized racial and ethnic groups, low-income, and individuals in rural populations
• Interventions to reduce health disparities in mental health and SUD
• Reversing social drifts
• Barriers and drivers for ethnic care, language, and culturally appropriate care
• Engagement and stigma considerations

Quality Measures & National Guidelines:

• Operationalizing quality measures and standards
• Physical and mental health differentiators: Evening the playing field for behavioral health outcomes
• Measuring efficacy programs
• Medication adherence from a quality perspective

Substance Use Disorders:

• Prevention and early intervention
• Wider access to treatment
• Streamlining fragmented systems of care for SUD
• Lowering the high out of pocket care for SUD prevention and treatment

Policy and Regulation for Mental Health & SUD:

• Innovation in Behavior Health (IBH) updates in quality, outcomes, infrastructure, payments, and IT support
• Mental Health Parity updates and changes affecting payers
• Complying with telehealth, technology, and virtual care

Suicide and Societal/Self-Harm Prevention:

• Best practices and preventative measure that work
• Peer support groups
• Supporting 988 services