Evernorth Health Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Cigna Group, has launched a measurement-based care program for its behavioral health network.
This new program is looking to align on treatment measurements that can improve care, cost and collaboration and remove administrative burdens for providers, according to an email release shared Oct. 5 with Becker's.
"We are identifying the most important measurements at each point in the patient journey and creating standard ways to capture them," Doug Nemecek, MD, chief medical officer of behavioral health for Evernorth, said in the release. "Our ongoing strategy involves building collaborations with key providers committed to quality outcomes and creating, with their partnership, interventions that will benefit patients, clients and mental health professionals alike."
Through the program's launch, Evernorth will work with over 44,000 providers, including behavioral health coaches, therapists and prescribers that treat a variety of mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, sleep disorders and substance use disorders.