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2000

Medicaid & SCHIP

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Mental Illness And Addiction Disorders And Medicaid Managed Care, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Joel B. Teitelbaum, D. Richard Mauery May 2000

Mental Illness And Addiction Disorders And Medicaid Managed Care, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Joel B. Teitelbaum, D. Richard Mauery

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

This Special Report on mental illness and addiction disorders is part of Negotiating the New Health System: A Nationwide Study of Medicaid Managed Care Contracts, now in its third edition. Negotiating the New Health System is a nationwide point-in-time study of agreements between state Medicaid agencies and managed care organizations (MCOs) offering general or specialized managed behavioral health care products. Each individual edition of Negotiating the New Health System is a point-in-time study or "snapshot" of these agreements for a particular year. However, the current series of editions, taken together, are beginning to form a longitudinal basis for reviewing the …


Health Centers' Role As Safety Net Providers For Medicaid Patients And The Uninsured, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Peter Shin, Anne R. Markus, Julie S. Darnell, Rachel Garfield, David Rousseau Feb 2000

Health Centers' Role As Safety Net Providers For Medicaid Patients And The Uninsured, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Peter Shin, Anne R. Markus, Julie S. Darnell, Rachel Garfield, David Rousseau

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

In order to understand the role of health centers as safety net providers, as well as the potential impact of these trends, this issue paper provides an in-depth examination of federally-funded health centers. Using data from the Uniform Data System (UDS), a government-maintained system that collects extensive patient, revenue, and service data on a calendar-year basis from health centers that receive federal grants, this issue paper profiles federally-funded health centers. It presents information on health center patients and revenue sources and analyzes similarities and differences both between health centers and private practices and among health centers. Health centers perform a …