CCTC leadership is currently preparing our organization for a major shift in healthcare delivery, namely value-based care. Our current national healthcare system creates a business model that structurally incentivizes provider organizations to focus on the quantity or volume of services as opposed to quality or value. This challenge is felt deeply by non-profit behavioral health agencies who serve vulnerable populations, particularly children whose needs tend to be more multifaceted.

Value-based care is a healthcare delivery model in which providers are paid based on patient health outcomes. A shift toward value-based care is considered a major restructuring of our healthcare delivery system as it will refocus and incentivize reductions in costs, and improvements in the quality of care and patient outcomes.
The core of shifting from a fee-for-service-model to a value-based care model involves fundamental changes in the structure and processes of an organization’s financial department, information technology, human resources, medical record keeping and ultimately service delivery. The means by which providers are able to move from a volume-based to an outcome-based model is through the application of a sophisticated data analytics system that is capable of integrating financial, human resource, and clinical care data to inform treatment efficacy and cost effectiveness.

CCTC plans to be at the forefront of innovation by embracing value-based care for children’s behavioral health. Through the implementation of a data analytics system, CCTC will transform our institutional practices across all programs and departments toward a focus on determining and thereby enhancing the impact of our services. Data analytics will provide us with information that will support strategic changes at the organizational and programmatic levels to inform better alignment of a child and family’s treatment needs and service delivery.
In January of 2020, CCTC commenced the implementation of a data analytics system. A data analytics vendor was identified and is working with CCTC’s core leadership implementation team to install, configure, populate, and align our major systems including financial, clinical management, and human resources. The focus of this process will be on creating data dashboard templates across the applicable CCTC programs which will be used for value-based care decision-making.

This process is expected to span the course of 36 months with the end goals being reducing costs while demonstrating measurable increases in utilization, efficiency, quality, and clinical outcomes; and creating a beginning pathway to value-based payments/contracting. The resources needed for successful implementation include the purchasing of the data analytics system, integration of our current systems, hiring of IT consultants and staff, and the funds to support the project for three years.