E8 - Metrics That Matter in Behavioral Health: The New Mexico Data Collection Project

The Data Collection Project started as a two-year project to identify and evaluate behavioral health-specific quality metrics instead of measures often used in behavioral health value-based payment that are adopted from the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set or physical health. Ten pilot provider teams successfully defined behavioral health-quality metrics that form the basis for a payment reform initiative. In five years, the project has expanded to 25 pilot teams. This presentation will detail how provider-driven metrics were developed, the identified metrics, the model developed for reporting and analyzing data, and the next step in transforming quality reporting into a meaningful behavioral health alternative payment model.