Reggie Ramsey, MBA, FACHE and Lisa Henderson are at Healthcare Sessions by Nashville Health Care Council. They’d love to talk to you if you’re curious about how we, as part of Thriveworks, can help bring behavioral health to your system!
Reflections on Day 1 of Healthcare Sessions by Nashville Health Care Council: 1. The #CountryMusicHallofFame showcases the history Nashville’s music industry existing through musicians from different backgrounds and genres coming together to collaborate and create something new that resonates deeply. (Personal note, perhaps one day the awards will fully reflect this, too…) This theme calls us to approach healthcare the same way to solve its most intractable problems. 2. M&A and investments are picking up in 2025, regardless of who is in the White House. The market has learned to account for volatility brought on by hot election cycles. Behavioral Health is still at the top of lists. But startup is harder than ever with higher bars of success than ever - good ideas don’t get investment anymore. Good operators do. My take: good BH businesses are the ones doing more than delivering good care through people, supported by innovative tech. That’s table stakes. Now you also have to take on the broken, fragmented, carved out, siloed BH-within-healthcare problems. 3. There was much abuzz after Senator Frist called value based care a wastebasket term. He followed it up by saying it just doesn’t get to the root of the issue. My take: VBC does nothing to get at why healthcare is so expensive and getting more so, or why patients are so complex with co-occurring conditions and getting more so. VBC alone won’t solve the root causes of these problems. I think it might allow for some room to innovate care models and therapies because incentives are aligned around improving health span. But that certainly remains to be seen. Looking forward to Day 2!!!