Access to MAT Isn’t a ‘Silver Bullet’

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Dec. 6, 2023 – MAT is only effective when combined with psychosocial modalities but the treatment needs to be more widely-adopted, according to Cooper Zelnick, the company’s chief revenue officer. Zelnick, who is in recovery himself, sees improving access to Groups’ multi-pronged approach to OUD as core to the company’s mission. Zelnick: The first reason we are able to do this against the backdrop of an industry that remains predominantly fee-for-service is that we are very focused on delivering great outcomes, being transparent about those outcomes with our plan partners and being willing to take risk on those outcomes.

Whenever folks ask me about transitioning their contracts to value or pursuing a value-based care strategy, question one is, ‘Do you have a clinical model that delivers powerful clinical outcomes?’ Question two is, ‘How willing are you to take economic risk on those outcomes?’

The biggest challenge is moving from philosophical alignment with health plans to a structure that meets all of the needs of those plans within a contract.