title: Public managed care: the role of the consultant.
abstract: Consultants will be increasingly important as public systems retool to fund and monitor managed behavioral health care services. Medicaid agencies, heretofore limited primarily to paying claims, must now develop expertise in RFP preparation and managing contracts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003253:Consultants; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011635:Public Health Administration; D014481:United States