Managing Managed Care: Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health (Contributions in Women's Studies; 158) - Hardcover

Institute Of Medicine; Committee On Quality Assurance And Accreditation Guidelines For Managed Behavioral Health Care

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 030905642X ISBN 13: 9780309056427

Publisher: National Academies Press, 1997

Synopsis

Managed care has produced dramatic changes in the treatment of mental health and substance abuse problems, known as behavioral health. Managing Managed Care offers an urgently needed assessment of managed care for behavioral health and a framework for purchasing, delivering, and ensuring the quality of behavioral health care. It presents the first objective analysis of the powerful multimillion-dollar accreditation industry and the key accrediting organizations.
Managing Managed Care draws evidence-based conclusions about the effectiveness of behavioral health treatments and makes recommendations that address consumer protections, quality improvements, structure and financing, roles of public and private participants, inclusion of special populations, and ethical issues.
The volume discusses trends in managed behavioral health care, highlighting the emerging role of the purchaser. The committee explores problems of overlap and fragmentation in the delivery of behavioral health care and discusses the issue of access, a special concern when private systems are restricted and public systems overburdened.
Highly applicable to the larger health care system, this volume will be of particular interest to all stakeholders in behavioral health--federal and state policymakers, public and private purchasers, health care providers and administrators, consumers and consumer advocates, accrediting organizations, and health services researchers.

Table of Contents

• FRONT MATTER
• SUMMARY
• INTRODUCTION
• TRENDS IN MANAGED CARE
• CHALLENGES IN DELIVERY OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE
• STRUCTURE
• ACCESS
• PROCESS
• OUTCOMES
• FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
• GLOSSARY
• APPENDIX A
• APPENDIX B
• APPENDIX C
• APPENDIX D
• APPENDIX E
• APPENDIX F
• INDEX

About this title

About the Author

Margaret Edmunds, Richard Frank, Michael Hogan, Dennis McCarty, Rhonda Robinson-Beale, and Constance Weisner, Editors; Committee on Quality Assurance and Accreditation Guidelines for Managed Behavioral Health Care, Institute of Medicine

Edition details

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 030905642X
• ISBN 13: 9780309056427
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 396
• Editor: Weisner Constance, Robinson-Beale Rhonda, McCarty Dennis, Hogan Michael, Frank Richard, Edmunds Margaret