Healthy Outcomes: A Baker Tilly Podcast

Reconsidering the behavioral health industry in 2022 and beyond

Episode Summary

On this episode of Healthy Outcomes, our host Mark Ross interviews Krista Pankop, the leader of Baker Tilly’s behavioral health practice, as well as senior managers Melissa Hicks and Michael Wascura about the major themes at NatCon 2022. In part one of this two-part series, Pankop, Hicks and Wascura discuss issues facing the behavioral health industry that were addressed at this leading behavioral health conference.

Episode Notes

On this episode of Healthy Outcomes, our host Mark Ross interviews Krista Pankop, the leader of Baker Tilly’s behavioral health practice, as well as senior managers Melissa Hicks and Michael Wascura about the major themes at NatCon 2022. In part one of this two-part series, Pankop, Hicks and Wascura discuss issues facing the behavioral health industry that were addressed at this leading behavioral health conference.

Topics of discussion include: 

• Increased demand for behavioral health services and its impact on workforce capacity
• Reimbursement streams for funding and subsidizing the increase in demand of behavioral health services 
• Increases in certified community behavioral health clinics (CCBHCs) and how they are funded
• Financial reporting and compliance best practices for CCBHCs and other behavioral health entities

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