title: Medicaid and mental health: be careful what you ask for.
abstract: Medicaid has had an enormous impact on the shape and impact of public mental health care. Medicaid mental health policy has expanded access, fostered consumerism, and created incentives for expansion of community-based providers. It also has dramatically changed the economic rules governing public mental health care, leading state governments to alter their behavior. The result has been a tilting of public mental health care toward Medicaid-covered people and services.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
authors.forename: Richard G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Frank
authors.forename: Howard H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Goldman
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hogan
mesh_terms: D003361:Cost Allocation; D035082:Federal Government; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D006291:Health Policy / Q000639:trends*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000639:trends*; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D011332:Privatization / Q000639:trends; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000639:trends*; D013219:State Government; D013221:State Health Plans / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States