ABA Payer Relations Run on Outcomes Data, Say Magellan and CentralReach Leaders

by Ethan Webb | Oct 5, 2026 | Regulation

Magellan’s Cara Albanese and CentralReach’s Yagnesh Vadgama told ABA providers what payers want now, from rate talks and denials to value-based contracts.When Acuity Media Network asked registrants for its recent webinar about what they most wanted to understand about...

Value-Based Care in Behavioral Health Lives on the Floor, Not in the Binder. Here Is What Separates the Programs That Work.

by Ethan Webb | Jul 23, 2026 | Regulation

Sponsored Content — In Partnership with Marsh McLennan Agency Under CCBHC prospective payment, outcome measurement is already a payment condition. What separates behavioral health organizations that deliver on it from those that only document it. By Debbi Czarnecki,...

The ABA Field Struggles to Agree on What a Meaningful Outcome Is, and Value-Based Care Is Forcing the Question

by Ethan Webb | Jul 2, 2026 | Regulation

CASP Mission Award winner Allyson Moore on why meaningful ABA outcomes resist a single score, the Vineland’s limits, value-based care, and adult autism care. Key Takeaways The field still struggles to agree on what a meaningful ABA outcome is, and value-based care is...

Value-Based Care in Medicaid Is Quietly Working Where Investors Wrote It Off: Behavioral Health Is the Proof

by Ethan Webb | Jun 25, 2026 | Technology

Investors at the AIF Roundtable argued that value-based care is not dead, it just moved to Medicaid, where complex-care platforms are aligning payment with outcomes and producing durable behavioral health companies that fee-for-service mental health cannot. Key...

Value-Based Care Is Redefining ABA Outcomes: The Field Is Measuring Parent Stress and Family Quality of Life, Not Just Mastery Tables. Practitioners Say the Data Is a Tool, Not the Goal.

by Ethan Webb | Jun 9, 2026 | Regulation

Key Takeaways The problem: ABA has long measured success through clinical data like skill mastery and behavior frequency, a frame that can miss whether a child's and family's life is actually improving. The response: The field is shifting toward value-based...