Key Personnel:
Robert Constantine, Ph.D.
Mary Rose Murrin, M.A.
Jing Guo, M.A.
Yuhong Wang, M.P.H.
Evaluation of Florida's Medicaid Managed Mental Health Plans Year 10 Report: Administrative Data Component
Publication Date: 6/1/2007
Description:
This report summarizes the results of efforts to use administrative data (Medicaid claims and encounter data) to evaluate the impact of implementing managed behavioral healthcare in AHCA areas 5 and 7. Consistent with previous studies, service penetration, quality of care, and recipient outcomes are the dimensions used in the evaluation.
The focus of the study is on the impact of managed care implementation on adults with a serious mental illness and children with a serious emotional disturbance. These populations are most likely to need mental health services and to be affected by the actions or inactions of their health plans.
