BHbusiness Plus was funded through SAMHSA. Utilizing a coached learning network model that lasted 3 to 6 months per network, AHP conducted more than 50 learning networks, each involving hundreds of participants, around the following topics:
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Value-based Purchasing
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Bundled Payments
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Data-Driven Decision Making
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New Business Planning
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Costing Out Your Services
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Setting up a Third-Party Billing System
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Improving Your Third-Party Billing System
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Third-Party Contract Negotiations
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Eligibility and Enrollment
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Strategic Business Decision Making
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Planning for the Next Generation of HIT
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Exploring Affiliations, Mergers, and Acquisitions
The goal was to help behavioral health providers identify and implement customized change projects that expanded their service capacity, harnessed new payer sources, and ultimately made them able to thrive in the changing health care environment. The program empowered participating organizations to actually make quantifiable changes, rather than just learn how to do so. It linked participants into specific learning networks that focused on a specific topic of interest and provided opportunities for networking and peer support.
Everyone within individual learning networks received hands-on expertise and guidance to initiate, continue, and complete business operations changes.
Currently, BHBusiness offers virtual technical assistance through self-paced online courses, coupled with a robust library of web resources on these same topics, at no cost to participants.