title: Quality assessment in a Medicaid managed mental health care plan: an Iowa case study.
abstract: Clinical quality was assessed in a statewide Medicaid managed mental health care program. Because of the limited quantity and scope of the available clinical data, the quality of clinical care could not be adequately assessed. The implications of this finding for the evaluation and oversight of quality in public sector managed care plans is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry Research, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA. barbara-rohland@uiowa.edu
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Rohland
mesh_terms: D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations; D006801:Humans; D007484:Iowa; D008484:Medicaid / Q000592:standards*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014481:United States