Product
Overview
RTI Equip delivers validated, transparent, provider-level quality measures and benchmarks for opioid treatment programs (OTPs) and other behavioral health (BH) providers. Purpose-built for Medicaid-relevant use cases, the product combines RTI’s provider identification methods, case-mix adjustment, and national and state benchmarks so states, Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs), and provider organizations can measure and compare performance fairly, consistently, and efficiently.
Why provider-level behavioral health measures?
Most existing quality analytics tools focus on health plans or provide raw claims data that require substantial custom analysis to interpret at the provider level. States, MCOs, and providers increasingly need turnkey, defensible provider-level measures to support Medicaid reporting, network oversight, contracting, and quality improvement.
RTI Equip addresses this gap by delivering provider-level measures that are:
- Initially focused on OTPs, a provider category with high impact and immediate Medicaid relevance, with planned expansion to Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CBHCs) and outpatient mental health clinics
- Case-mix adjusted and methodologically transparent, enabling fair, defensible comparisons across providers serving different patient populations
- Benchmarked at national and state levels, allowing users to interpret local performance within an appropriate peer and policy context
Core measurement approach
RTI Equip is built on a rigorously defined measurement framework designed to ensure accuracy, comparability, and policy relevance across Medicaid environments. The approach integrates three foundational components:
- Provider identification - Proprietary methods accurately identify OTPs and other behavioral health provider types within Medicaid claims, addressing common classification gaps that limit the usefulness of many claims-based datasets.
- Case-mix adjustment - Published, transparent risk-adjustment methods control for differences in patient populations, supporting fair provider comparisons and defensible use in oversight and contracting.
- Benchmark construction - National and state benchmarks are derived from states and national Medicaid claims data with stratifications by encountercharacteristics.
- Compliance-aware outputs - Reporting is aggregate and suppression-aware by design, aligning with Medicaid data use agreements (DUAs) and redisclosure requirements.
Data and delivery
RTI Equip is designed to work within the realities of Medicaid data availability, access constraints, and reporting timelines, while still delivering actionable insights.
- Primary data sources - Medicaid claims (T-MSIS/TAF).
- Timeliness - Claims data typically lag by 12 months. RTI provides clear data-vintage labeling and consistent methods to maximize comparability across measurement years.
- Access models - Flexible licensing options include per-organization licenses, and enterprise or statewide subscriptions. Outputs are delivered via secure web dashboards, downloadable reports and data exports, and APIs on enterprise tiers.
Features that matter to buyers
RTI Equip emphasizes practical, policy-aligned features that support real-world Medicaid use cases without requiring custom analytics builds.
- Turnkey provider-level quality measure set for OTPs, including retention, medication continuity, access, utilization, and related measures, with published specifications
- Case-mix-adjusted provider benchmarking, with national and state reference cohorts
- Provider performance dashboards, including sortable leaderboards, percentile ranks, trend charts, and patient-flow visualizations
- Equity and stratification views, showing performance by race/ethnicity, age group, and geography where data permit
- Audit-ready reporting packages, with technical documentation suitable for procurement, oversight, and regulatory review
- Exportable datasets and standardized reports, supporting contracting, waiver reporting (e.g., Section 1115 and CCBHC), and internal quality improvement
- Built-in compliance guardrails, including suppression rules, DUA-aligned outputs, and de-identification workflows
- Optional professional services, such as validation studies, custom cohort benchmarking, measure crosswalks, and technical integration support
Why choose RTI?
RTI Equip is grounded in RTI’s longstanding role as a trusted partner to Medicaid agencies, payers, and providers, combining scientific rigor with operational practicality.
- Domain expertise - Decades of experience in Medicaid measurement, claims analytics, and behavioral health research.
- Methodological transparency - Full documentation of provider identification, measure logic, and case-mix adjustment methods to support trust with regulators, providers, and payers.
- Policy alignment - Measures and outputs are designed specifically for Medicaid use cases, including waiver reporting, parity monitoring, and network adequacy assessment.
- Faster time to value - Avoid building complex VRDC or APCD pipelines; deploy validated provider metrics and benchmarks with pilot-ready timelines.
- Defensible pricing - Multiple packaging options to align with buyer scale, procurement requirements, and budget constraints.
Typical users and applications
RTI Equip supports a range of stakeholders involved in Medicaid behavioral health improvement:
- State Medicaid agencies: provider oversight, waiver reporting, equity monitoring, and procurement support
- Medicaid MCOs: network adequacy analysis, contracting analytics, and value-based payment readiness
- Provider organizations (OTPs, CCBHCs, mental health clinics): benchmarking for quality improvement, accreditation, and payer negotiations
- Quality collaboratives and researchers: comparative studies, evaluation support, and public reporting initiatives
Dashboard access
Access to RTI Equip dashboards is structured by measurement year to ensure clarity and data integrity.
- Clients purchase 12 months of access to a dedicated dashboard for a specific measurement year.
- As new measurement years become available, clients may purchase access to an additional 12-month dashboard link.
Support, validation, and services
RTI offers both technical support and optional consulting services to ensure successful adoption and defensible use.
- Technical support — onboarding, training, and ongoing user assistance
- Consulting services — measure validation, peer cohort design, custom reporting, and support for regulatory or procurement submissions
Try RTI Equip
Interested in RTI Equip? Try it out for yourself.
Illustrative materials are available to support procurement and stakeholder review, and live demonstrations and sample outputs using non-identifiable or synthetic data are available upon request.
