Behavioral Health Advantage – The Elevance Health Approach to Innovations in Substance Use & Suicide Prevention
Presented on June 15, 2023
This presentation took place at The 2023 OPEN MINDS Strategy & Innovation Institute. Keynote speaker David Lederman, Senior Product Manager for Elevance Health, discussed how Elevance Health launched its Behavioral Health Advantage (BHA) program. Through BHA, Elevance Health sees significant reductions in suicide, alcohol, and opioid use. By leveraging prevention efforts, they are addressing access issues, providing mental health and substance use navigation support, creating comprehensive care plans, increasing the use of digital tools, and helping to eliminate stigma in the workplace.
Featured Speaker

David Lederman
Senior Product Manager, Elevance Health
Dave Lederman is currently a Senior Product Manager at Elevance Health. In his 2nd year at Elevance Health, Dave’s role is focused on developing strategies to expand access to behavioral health and substance use care in the commercial space. This work comes with an opportunity to shape Elevance Health product offerings when it comes to member experience, client reporting, and provider and vendor relationships.
Dave earned a Bachelors Degree from Tel-Aviv University in 2007, and a Masters Degree in Business Management with a focus on Health Sector Management from the Temple University at Philadelphia in 2013. Prior to getting his graduate degree, he worked at Columbia University on a behavioral health and substance use study identifying the impact of genetic and environmental effect on behavioral health and substance use. After graduating from Temple University, Dave worked as a business consultant at telehealth and remote monitoring start up. Dave transitioned to lead projects at a Behavior Health Analytics start-up, identifying ways to drive members to seek care for chronic conditions and co-morbidities.
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