Insights and opportunities: Medicaid directors identify mental health issues.
Medicaid has become central to financing public mental health services, and state Medicaid directors are now in a position to wield considerable influence over the direction that mental health policy takes in a state. As state mental health authorities seek to shape state and local mental health systems, they should find it useful, perhaps critical, to understand the perspectives and opinions of Medicaid directors.
Edwards
Barbara Coulter
BC
Health Management Associates, Inc., 37 W. Broad St., Suite 1150, Columbus, OH 43215, USA. bedwards@healthmanagement.com
Smith
Vernon K
VK
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