title: Managed behavioral health care: lessons from Massachusetts.
abstract: Since implementing the first statewide carve-out for behavioral health care in 1992, Massachusetts has achieved sustained reductions in cost, increases in access, and improvements in major quality measures. This introduction to a special issue describes the context, linkages with primary care, consumer satisfaction, unmet need, performance incentives (a key component of the success), stakeholder perspectives, and impacts on special populations.
authors.affiliation: Heller School, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA. shepard@brandeis.edu
authors.forename: Donald S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Shepard
authors.forename: Marilyn C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Daley
authors.forename: Richard H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Beinecke
authors.forename: Clare L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Hurley
mesh_terms: D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008404:Massachusetts; D008511:Medicine; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D013038:Specialization