Combining the best evidence and technology

In 2010, the InterQual® Behavioral Health criteria celebrated ten years of active and growing use by behavioral health practitioners. We apply the well-known InterQual development methodology to behavioral health, offering evidence-based decision support that takes into account the unique characteristics of behavioral health.

InterQual for Behavioral Health Organizations incorporates evidence-based clinical content and technology to provide a decision support system that helps you deliver higher quality behavioral health care at lower cost.

Why InterQual? In the end, all the reasons come down to the same thing: InterQual’s ability to help improve healthcare quality and efficiency. InterQual helps to:

Reduce over- and under-utilization

• Drive appropriate care with same source, rules-based, patient-specific EBM (evidence-based medicine) decision support.
• Reduce re-admissions, LOS (length of stay) and services with clinical criteria that spans the continuum of care

Increase defensibility and reduce risk

• Validate appropriate care with reporting

Align stakeholders

• Drive consistency with same source, rules-based, customizable EBM decision support
• Reduce administrative expense with fewer denials and appeals
• Improve quality with more time available for patient care

We continually enhance InterQual content and technology to meet the needs of our customers and the ever-changing market. For example, as behavioral healthcare shifted to non-acute settings, we developed Residential and Community-Based Criteria. And we’re ready to help our customers manage the impact of parity for behavioral health organizations.

Benefits

• Flexible access and use - Built for integration, InterQual technology can be combined with your organization’s existing applications. With our diverse delivery options, alliance partners and unique ability to incorporate organization-specific criteria, McKesson delivers solutions that are fully integrated with and tailored to your organization’s care management workflow.
• Credibility - The expertise and intense rigor we apply in the InterQual development process results in unparalleled content integrity, so you can have greater confidence in your clinical decision-making, and by sharing the underlying logic you can create greater transparency and alignment between you and your stakeholders.
• Commitment: The McKesson team is with you every step of the way, dedicated to making your experience—with our criteria, our technology and our professional services—a superior one.

Do you want to know more about how InterQual can help you improve quality, efficiency and costs for behavioral health? Call us at 800.782.1334 or request more information.