title: A Medicaid mental health carveout program: the Massachusetts experience.
abstract: Private sector contracts with Medicaid mental health programs have the potential to help states offer quality improvements and cost savings for chronically mentally ill populations. A Massachusetts experience illustrates how state agencies, community providers, and a private, mental health management firm collaborated to reduce rising Medicaid mental health and substance abuse costs and improve access and quality of care for Medicaid recipients.
authors.affiliation: First Mental Health/MHMA, USA.
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Counihan
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pattullo
mesh_terms: D017046:Cost Savings; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D008404:Massachusetts / Q000453:epidemiology; D008484:Medicaid / Q000458:organization & administration*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D017146:Models, Organizational; D017149:Private Sector; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards; D013221:State Health Plans / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000191:economics; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology