This study represents a descriptive, point-in-time examination of the structure and content of provider network agreements between managed care organizations (MCOs) and community mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) treatment and prevention agencies. This is not a study of the quality of managed care systems. Instead, this analysis is designed to assess provider contracts (one of the basic legal instruments on which the managed care system rests) and to identify the meaning of these instruments for MH/SA service providers, group purchasers, MCOs, individual consumers and their families, and public policy
Managed care organizations may exert monopsony power, reduce provider monopoly, or engage in bargain...
This study examines the extent of point-of-service use in a managed care plan using 1990 and 1991 pr...
Attorneys Brown and Hartung provide a comprehensive overview of the development and structural compo...
Research Objective: This study, which builds on an ongoing body of research into the policy framewor...
This Issue Brief analyzes the devolution of the legal duties assumed by managed care organizations (...
The contracting process is one that health care professionals oftentimes find complex and confusing....
This double Issue Brief on the issue of managed care contracts and care coordination has been prepar...
This study examined coordination between privatized child welfare initiatives and Medicaid managed c...
This analysis provides an overview of recent legal developments in managed care case law. Three type...
Copyright © 2002 ICMPE Background: In the US, the spiraling costs of substance abuse and mental heal...
Objective. To develop an instrument to characterize public sector managed behavioral health care arr...
This Policy Brief examines behavioral health managed care contracting under separately administered ...
This report, the first full report on the organizational, financial and clinical structures of the m...
Many consumers and employers are becoming increasingly concerned about the cost, quality, and approp...
BACKGROUND: Contracts are a verbal or written agreement that a patient makes with themselves, with h...
Managed care organizations may exert monopsony power, reduce provider monopoly, or engage in bargain...
This study examines the extent of point-of-service use in a managed care plan using 1990 and 1991 pr...
Attorneys Brown and Hartung provide a comprehensive overview of the development and structural compo...
Research Objective: This study, which builds on an ongoing body of research into the policy framewor...
This Issue Brief analyzes the devolution of the legal duties assumed by managed care organizations (...
The contracting process is one that health care professionals oftentimes find complex and confusing....
This double Issue Brief on the issue of managed care contracts and care coordination has been prepar...
This study examined coordination between privatized child welfare initiatives and Medicaid managed c...
This analysis provides an overview of recent legal developments in managed care case law. Three type...
Copyright © 2002 ICMPE Background: In the US, the spiraling costs of substance abuse and mental heal...
Objective. To develop an instrument to characterize public sector managed behavioral health care arr...
This Policy Brief examines behavioral health managed care contracting under separately administered ...
This report, the first full report on the organizational, financial and clinical structures of the m...
Many consumers and employers are becoming increasingly concerned about the cost, quality, and approp...
BACKGROUND: Contracts are a verbal or written agreement that a patient makes with themselves, with h...
Managed care organizations may exert monopsony power, reduce provider monopoly, or engage in bargain...
This study examines the extent of point-of-service use in a managed care plan using 1990 and 1991 pr...
Attorneys Brown and Hartung provide a comprehensive overview of the development and structural compo...