Last year, Independence Blue Cross (IBX) insourced its behavioral health network to integrate the delivery of medical and behavioral health care. This change supports our focus on a whole-person approach to health, to engage and enable all of the factors that can affect a person's well-being. This integration allows us to address not only physical symptoms, but also the psychological and emotional aspects of health.

Reinforcing our mission of whole-person and ensuring that we instill metrics to address the needs of our members, this year IBX introduced a new value-based incentive program — the Mental Health Incentive Program (MHIP) — for participating mental health professional and facility providers. The MHIP assesses the performance of our mental health providers to ensure they are delivering quality, accessible, and cost-effective care to our members.  

Key program features

The MHIP is comprised of two separate and distinct programs utilizing quality metrics for:

• Mental health outpatient/professional practices
• Mental health inpatient facilities

These programs address important mental health care priorities, such as:

In the coming months, we will introduce you to our dedicated Behavioral Health team, who will help support your practice/facility to achieve these program goals.

Learn more

We encourage you to review our new MHIP FAQ and the MHIP guide to learn more about eligibility requirements, measurement details, incentive opportunities, and reporting and payment schedules. You can access the guide on the Provider Engagement, Analytics & Reporting (PEAR) portal. From the PEAR Help Center, select Value-Based Programs under Analytics & Reporting.

Visit the Behavioral Health page for more information on our behavioral health network and resources available to our behavioral health providers.

For additional questions about the program, please email us at mhincentiveprogram@ibx.com.

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