Product
Overview
RTI Equip delivers validated, transparent, healthcare organization quality metrics and benchmarks for opioid treatment programs (OTPs) and other behavioral health (BH) care organizations.
New: Medicare data now available. RTI Equip now incorporates Medicare claims alongside Medicaid, expanding coverage to dual-eligible beneficiaries whose care spans both programs.
Why provider-level behavioral health measures?
Most existing quality analytics tools use internal provider electronic medical record data or claims data aggregated to the health plan or geographic regions. These approaches offer healthcare organizations limited actionable insights.
RTI Equip healthcare organization metrics are:
- Based on longitudinal data that offers a comprehensive view of patient outcomes
- Case-mix adjusted enabling fair comparisons across providers serving different patient populations
- Benchmarked at national, state, and health system levels, allowing users to interpret local performance within an appropriate peer and policy context
- Stratified by patient subgroups, facilitating targeted interventions
- Multiyear historical data allowing trend analysis
- Initially focused on OTPs with planned expansion to Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CBHCs) and outpatient mental health clinics
Data and delivery
RTI Equip delivers metrics through secure dashboards, reports, data exports, and APIs, with clear data-vintage labeling to support interpretation across measurement years.
- Primary data sources - Medicaid claims and Medicare claims.
- Timeliness - Claims data typically lag by 12 months. RTI provides clear data-vintage labeling and consistent methods to maximize comparability across measurement years.
- Compliance-aware - Reporting is aggregate and suppression-aware by design, aligning with Medicaid and Medicare data use agreements (DUAs) and redisclosure requirements.
- 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.
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
Dashboard access is organized by measurement year: clients purchase 12 months of access to a dedicated dashboard and may add subsequent measurement years as they become available.
Support, validation, and services
RTI supports adoption through onboarding, training, user assistance, and optional consulting for validation, custom reporting, cohort design, and regulatory or procurement submissions.
RTI Equip Toolkit — publicly available
Separate from the licensed RTI Equip product, the RTI Equip Toolkit is a free, publicly accessible resource that anyone can use — no purchase or subscription required. It documents the measures, methods, and benchmarks behind RTI Equip, helping states, payers, providers, and researchers understand and apply the framework.
Try RTI Equip
Interested in the full RTI Equip product? Access to RTI Equip dashboards and benchmarks is available through a paid license. 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.
