A Reflection On The Past & A Look To The Future Of The Health & Human Services Market
In 2021, Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. (OAPI) released The Third Edition Of Trends In Behavioral Health: A Reference Guide On The US Behavioral Health Financing & Delivery System (The Guide). This release focused on the OPEN MINDS survey results that came from interviews of 1,132 health plans. Top payer executives provided information on COVID-19, their current and future reimbursement strategies, digital technology strategies, consumer engagement, care coordination, and much more.
In 2022 OPEN MINDS and Otsuka look to see how much their predictions came to fruition. Areas such as digital therapeutics and whole-person care continue to make strides. Staffing shortages affected many organizations in a more pronounced way than anticipated. We see new avenues of competition from retail health and health plans themselves as “payviders”.
As OPEN MINDS and Otsuka prepare The Fourth Edition of The Guide, a 2022 Supplement has been released. The 2022 Supplement looks at the payer interviews in 2021 and holds them to the state of health care in 2022. The 2022 Supplement also identifies new trends not previously anticipated. Join OPEN MINDS and Otsuka in a conversation about the impacts and the future of health care. They will open with an overview on the current broad impacts of the health and human services market. Then they will revisit the 2021 payer survey results and explore how much the learnings from those are playing out today. Finally, the speakers will predict the future for 2022 and 2023 while seeking discussion with the audience.
*Paul Duck is a paid consultant of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. (OPDC). Dr. Shurtleff is an employee of OPDC.