Addiction to opioids, alcohol, and other drugs have devastating individual and family effects and too often end lives prematurely while driving enormous inefficiency in health care. Unlike many other chronic conditions — where “standards of excellence” inform consumers, health systems, and payers about best practices and services that should be available — today’s recovery services are delivered through a method often lacking alignment or integrated economic structures that incentivize long-term recovery. In late 2016, the U.S. Surgeon General issued the seminal “Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health: Facing Addiction in America.” The report issues a call for mainstream health systems to begin integrating substance use services was afforded an entire chapter. In response, organizations have formed the Alliance for Addiction Payment Reform (Alliance) to: Provide guidance, recommendations, and tools for the development of integrated delivery models of care for addiction; Collectively champion payment reform and shifting towards value-based purchasing in addiction care; and Advance value-based models nationally through private and public channels. ​ The Alliance, comprised of dozens of health care institutions and professionals, developed the Addiction Recovery Medical Home Alternative Payment Model (ARMH-APM) to establish a structure that promotes the type of integration and patient care capable of producing improved outcomes for patients, payers, and health systems long-term by aligning all incentives. The ARMH-APM was initially developed by a multi-sector process convened by Leavitt Partners, Facing Addiction with NCADD, and Third Horizon Strategies and published in 2018. In 2019, Third Horizon Strategies continued to manage the work on behalf of the Alliance and released an updated paper coinciding with the announcement of pilot explorations of the model in local markets.

U.S. health care is truly transforming in a very unique and exciting way. Third Horizon Strategies focuses on the confluence of key market trends and signals that indicate how the health care ecosystem will operate in the future. This “third horizon” vision is critically important to organizations making serious strategic, investment, and partnership decisions that will fundamentally shift the way key assets are managed and deployed. Together, policy makers, market stakeholders, and consumers will shape a future system that actualizes common access to health care, improved efficiency, and sustainable culture of health. Third Horizon Strategies provides the strategic planning, intelligence sharing, and collaborative problem-solving necessary to arrive at that future state.

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myStrength is a recognized leader in digital behavioral health that greatly enhances traditional care models, while addressing issues of cost, lack of access, and stigma, to deliver mental health and well-being resources at scale. Their platform targets the most prevalent and costly behavioral health conditions ─ empowering consumers with innovative self-care resources to manage and overcome challenges with depression, anxiety, stress, substance use disorder, chronic pain and sleep. myStrength collaborates with over 100 health plans, integrated health systems, EAPs, disease management providers, managed and community behavioral health providers, strategic alliances, ACOs and FQHCs. myStrength is a part of Livongo Health, who has pioneered the category of Applied Health Signals, empowering people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives. The combined companies uniquely support whole-person health by offering a range of solutions for both physical and mental health – leading to better clinical and financial outcomes, while empowering members to seamlessly manage their chronic conditions and behavioral health on one clinical-grade platform.

Third Horizon Strategies is a Chicago-based, boutique advisory firm focused on shaping a future system that actualizes a sustainable culture of health nationwide. The firm offers a 360º view of complex challenges across three horizons – past, present, and future– to help industry leaders and policymakers interpret signals and trends; design integrated systems; and enact changes so that all communities, families, and individuals can thrive.