Health benefits managers are looking for innovative ways to provide behavioral health services to their members – and that’s a trend that operators should be keeping their eye on, Behavioral Health Business reports. Behavioral health-related conditions such as depression, anxiety, addiction and others are among the largest drivers in health care. On top of that, they are often a top concern the members of insurers, which work with health benefits managers and employers to craft their offerings. Those realities, in turn, have put behavioral front-and-center for benefits managers. Read more.
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