Overview
Written by a team of nationally recognized authorities on managed care, Managed Behavioral Health Care Handbook guides you through specific strategies that characterize contemporary efforts made at managing behavioral health care, building a clear understanding of their role, and their effect in improving the quality of behavioral health care today, and in the future.
From beginning to end, you will learn the core components of the managed behavioral health care process and gain invaluable insight into the numerous controversies and public policy issues.
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Contents: An Overview of Managed Behavioral Health Care * Forms of Payment, Capitation, and Risk Management * Clinical Delivery and Medical Necessity * Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care: Finding New Solutions to Long-Standing Problems * Treatment and Coverage Decision Making in Managed Care: Patients' Rights under Publicly and Privately Sponsored Managed Care Arrangements * Private Purchaser Expectations * Public Purchaser Expectations * Persons with Serious Mental Illness, The Public Sector, and Managed Care * Persons with Addictive Disorders, System Failures, and Managed Care * Performance, Quality, and Outcomes: Prospects for Consensus in the Behavioral Health Field * Consumer Satisfaction Teams and Other Third-Party Independent Accountability Entities * Can Provider-Sponsored Organizations Successfully Manage Care? * Interest Group Competition and the Regulation of Managed Behavioral Health Care * Concluding Observations
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