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Mental health

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2007

  • Rural Inpatient Psychiatric Units Improve Access to Community-Based Mental Health Services, but Medicare Payment Policy a Barrier
    Author(s): Stephenie Loux, David Hartley, David Lambert
    Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Health services, Hospitals and clinics, Mental health
    Date: 08 / 2007
    Inpatient Psychiatric Units (IPUs) may not only be an important source of care for rural residents, but may also assist in the development of community-based services and the recruitment of mental health professionals. This study investigates the typical characteristics and admission processes of IPUs in rural hospitals with less than 50 beds, as well as the community-based services available to them when discharging patients. Reasons for developing these IPUs as well as the barriers to opening and operating a rural IPU and factors that have led some to close are also explored.
  • Use of Critical Access Hospital Emergency Rooms by Patients With Mental Health Symptoms
    Author(s): David Hartley, Erika C. Ziller, Stephenie L. Loux, John A. Gale, David Lambert, Anush E. Yousefian
    Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Critical Access Hospitals and Rural Hospital Flexibility Program, Emergency medical services (EMS), Mental health
    Citation: Journal of Rural Health, 23(2), 108-115
    Date: 2007
    Describes the results of a study investigating the use of critical access hospital (CAH) emergency rooms by patients with mental health problems to understand the role these facilities play in rural mental health needs and the challenges they face.

2006

  • Integrating Primary Care and Mental Health: Current Practices in Rural Community Health Centers
    Author(s): David Lambert, John Gale
    Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), Mental health
    Citation: Kansas City, MO: National Rural Health Association
    Date: 10 / 2006
    Provides information on models for integrating mental health services in rural community health centers, viability of linkages between primary care and mental health providers, resources available, reimbursement, treatment philosophy, diversification, referral and enhancement. Available for purchase.
  • Rural-Urban Differences in Depression Prevalence: Implications for Family Medicine
    Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Sarah B. Laditka, Charity G. Moore, Nusrat Harun, M. Paige Powell, Elizabeth G. Baxley
    Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Topic: Mental health
    Citation: Family Medicine, 38(9), 653-60
    Date: 10 / 2006
    Reports results of a study that examined the prevalence of depression in rural versus urban areas. An estimated 2.6 million rural adults suffer from depression. The unadjusted prevalence of depression was significantly higher among rural than urban populations (6.1% versus 5.2% ). After adjusting for rural/urban population characteristics, however, the odds of depression did not differ by residence. Depression risk was higher among persons likely to be encountered in a primary care setting: those with fair or poor self-reported health, hypertension, with limitations in daily activities, or whose health status changed during the previous year.
  • Modeling the Mental Health Workforce in Washington State: Using State Licensing Data to Examine Provider Supply in Rural and Urban Areas
    Author(s): Laura-Mae Baldwin, Miriam M. Patanian, Eric H. Larson, Denise M. Lishner, Larry B. Mauksch, Wayne J. Katon, Edward Walker, L. Gary Hart
    Research center: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Mental health, Workforce
    Citation: Journal of Rural Health, 22(1), 50-8
    Date: 2006
    The authors sought to identify mental health shortage areas using existing licensing and survey data, and found that notable shortages of mental health providers existed throughout the state, especially in rural areas. Urban areas had 3 times the psychiatrist FTEs per 100,000 and more than 1.5 times the nonpsychiatrist mental health provider FTEs per 100,000 as rural areas. More than 80% of rural health service areas had at least 10% fewer psychiatrist FTEs and nonpsychiatrist mental health provider FTEs than the state ratio. They concluded that states gathering a minimum database at licensure renewal can identify area-specific mental health care shortages for use in program planning.
  • Differential Effectiveness of Enhanced Depression Treatment for Rural and Urban Primary Care Patients
    Author(s): Scott J. Adams, Stanley Xu, Fran Dong, John Fortney, Kathryn Rost
    Research center: WICHE Center for Rural Mental Health Research
    Topic: Mental health
    Citation: Journal of Rural Health, 22(4), 343-350
    Date: 2006
    Reports the results of a study that explored whether a depression disease management program has a comparable impact on clinical outcomes over 2 years in patients treated in rural and urban primary care practices and whether the impact is mediated by receiving evidence-based care (antidepressant medication and specialty care counseling). The study found that depression disease management improved the mental health status of urban patients over 18 months but not rural patients. Effects were not mediated by antidepressant medication or specialty care counseling in urban or rural patients.
  • PTSD and Substance Use: Unrecognized Sequelae of Bioterrorism in Primary Care Providers
    Author(s): Jennie C. I. Tsao, Aram Dobalian, Brenda A. Wiens, Julius A. Gylys, Art Clawson, Robert Brooks
    Research center: ORHP-funded Individual Grantees
    Topics: Emergency preparedness, Mental health, Public health, Substance abuse
    Citation: Southern Medical Journal, 99(8), 817-822
    Date: 2006
    Reports the results of a study that looked at rural primary care providers' knowledge of likely mental disorders, their risk factors, and preferred treatment options following a public health emergency.
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Rural Primary Care: Improving Care for Mental Health Following Bioterrorism
    Author(s): Jennie C. I. Tsao, Aram Dobalian, Brenda A. Wiens, Julius A. Gylys, Garret D. Evans
    Research center: ORHP-funded Individual Grantees
    Topics: Emergency preparedness, Mental health
    Citation: Journal of Rural Health, 22(1), 78-82
    Date: 2006
    Describes the need to educate rural primary care providers who will be the frontline providers of mental health services following bioterrorism, given the limited availability of tertiary mental health care in rural communities.
  • Stakeholder Benefit From Depression Disease Management: Differences by Rurality?
    Author(s): Kathryn Rost, Stanley Xu, Fran Dong, L. Miriam Dickinson
    Research center: WICHE Center for Rural Mental Health Research
    Topic: Mental health
    Citation: Manuscript currently in review. Copies may be requested from Dr. Rost at Kathryn.Rost@med.fsu.edu, telephone 850.645.7367, fax 850.645.1773
    Date: 2006
    Background: Despite increasing consensus about the value of depression disease management programs, the field has not identified which stakeholders should absorb the relatively small additional costs associated with these programs. Aims of Study: This paper investigates whether two stakeholder groups (health plans and employer purchasers) in two delivery systems (rural and urban) economically benefit from improved depression treatment by testing whether depression care management results in: (1) a greater reduction of utilization costs in insured rural patients than their urban counterparts (health plan stakeholders), and (2) a greater reduction in work costs in employed urban patients than their rural counterparts (employer purchaser stakeholders). Methods: We examined the main and differential effects of intervention on utilization and work costs over 24 months in a pre-planned secondary analysis of 479 depressed patients from rural and urban primary care practices who participated in a randomized controlled trial of depression disease management. Results: Reductions in work costs were observable in both the rural and urban cohort, while reductions in utilization costs were observable in the urban cohort. Discussion with Limitations: While our small sample size limits definitive conclusions, the economic incentives to assure improved depression treatment may differ across stakeholders in rural and urban delivery systems. Implications for Health Policy: Employers may have more consistent economic incentives than health plans to assure improve depression treatment across rural and urban delivery systems.
  • Smallest Rural Hospitals Treat Mental Health Emergencies
    Author(s): David Hartley, Stephenie Loux
    Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Hospitals and clinics, Mental health
    Report Number: Research and Policy Brief
    Date: 2006
    Discusses the extent to which rural emergency rooms encounter and treat mental health patients.
  • Mental Health Care in Rural Communities: the Once and Future Role of Primary Care
    Author(s): John A.Gale, David Lambert,
    Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Health services, Mental health
    Citation: North Carolina Medical Journal, 67(1), 66-70
    Date: 2006
    Discusses issues related to the delivery of mental health services in the United States. Addresses how these issues complicate the delivery of services in rural areas. Offers an argument for integrating primary care and mental health in rural areas.
  • Rural and Frontier Mental and Behavioral Health Care: Barriers, Effective Policy Strategies, Best Practices
    Author(s): Donald Sawyer, John Gale, David Lambert
    Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Frontier health, Mental health, Substance abuse, Telehealth
    Citation: Waite Park, MN: National Association of Rural Mental Health
    Date: 2006
    Discusses barriers to mental and behavioral health service delivery in rural America. Includes model programs and model policy strategies for rural mental and behavioral health care delivery. Also discusses the roles that telehealth and that the State Offices of Rural Health should play in service delivery.
  • Mental Health and Rural America: 1994-2005
    Author(s): Dennis Mohatt, Scott J. Adams, Mimi M. Bradley, Chad A. Morris
    Research center: WICHE Center for Rural Mental Health Research
    Topic: Mental health
    Date: 2006
    Provides a summary of the current knowledge base surrounding mental health issues in America's rural and frontier areas and an overview of the environment of mental health in rural areas over three decades. Includes an annotated bibliography.

2005

  • Suicide in North Dakota: A Dialogue Across State and Tribal Boundaries
    Author(s): Garth Kruger, Jacque Gray
    Research center: Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Mental health, Minority health
    Report Number: Policy Brief
    Date: 10 / 2005
    Compared nationally, North Dakota ranks 13th in the nation for suicide (14.4 suicides per 1000,000 people). This policy brief looks at three broad areas in addressing this preventable tragedy: 1) an understanding of factors associated with suicide; 2) information about specific trends such as race, gender, location, and costs; 3) an awareness of suicide prevention strategies that address these factors through public policy and community action.
  • Identifying Community-Level Predictors of Depression Hospitalizations
    Author(s): John C. Fortney, T. Rushton, S. Wood, Kathryn Rost
    Research center: WICHE Center for Rural Mental Health Research
    Topic: Mental health
    Date: 09 / 2005
    This investigation demonstrated that: (1) rural counties have lower rates of depression-related hospitalization than urban counties, (2) rurality fails to predict depression-related hospitalization in models that control for community-level demographic, economic and health system risk factors, (3) community-level risk factors explain a respectable ~30% of the variance in depression-related hospitalization rates, and (4) while these risk factors identify high risk areas in the 10 states we studied, they cannot be used to identify high risk areas in other states. Full report available on request. Executive summary available online.
  • Differential Effectiveness of Depression Disease Management for Rural and Urban Primary Care Patients
    Author(s): Scott J. Adams, Stanley Xu, Fran Dong, John Fortney, Kathryn Rost
    Research center: WICHE Center for Rural Mental Health Research
    Topic: Mental health
    Date: 09 / 2005
    Examined whether or not there is a differential impact of enhanced depression care on patient outcomes in rural versus urban primary care settings and whether differences any are mediated by receiving evidence-based care (pharmacotherapy and specialty care counseling). Findings indicate that enhanced care for depression improved mental health status over 18 months for urban primary care populations, but not rural patients. Full report available on request.
  • Mental Health Encounters in Critical Access Hospital Emergency Rooms: A National Survey
    Author(s): David Hartley, Erika Ziller, Stephenie Loux, John Gale, David Lambert, Anush Yousefian
    Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Critical Access Hospitals and Rural Hospital Flexibility Program, Emergency medical services (EMS), Mental health
    Report Number: Working Paper No. 32
    Date: 09 / 2005
    Investigates the extent and types of cases that present with mental health problems in Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) emergency rooms (ERs), as well as the resources available to ER staff for addressing such problems and what actually happens to such patients. Emergency department managers in a random sample of 422 CAHs in 44 states completed a telephone survey (response rate = 84.7%) responding to questions about prevalence of mental health problems in their ER and what options they had for responding to such problems. On average, CAHs had 99 emergency room visits per week. Of these visits, 9.4% were mental health related. CAH ERs play a significant role in providing mental health services to rural residents. Although nearly 20% of mental health encounters result in transfers to other facilities, over 40% of mental health problems are addressed on-site through treatment or referrals. Nearly half (43%) of CAH ER managers reported having no access to local mental health providers of any kind.
  • Mental Health Risk Factors, Unmet Needs, and Provider Availability for Rural Children
    Author(s): Charity G. Moore, Michael Mink, Janice C. Probst, Mark Tompkins, Andy Johnson, Shereca Hughley
    Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Children, Mental health
    Date: 09 / 2005
    The study used the 2001 National Health Interview Survey to assess the prevalence of sub-clinical mental health problems among children, the degree to which children with potential problems use mental health and general providers for these problems, and the degree of unmet need. Key findings include: 1) Nearly 1 of every 4 rural children has a potential mental health problem as derived from the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ).; 2) Age, sex, family income, parental education, living situation, health insurance status, and previously diagnosed developmental disorder were all associated with sub-clinical mental health problems in children.; 3) Less than 1 out of 5 parents of rural or urban children with sub-clinical mental health problems had seen or talked to a mental health professional about the child in the past 12 months.; and 4) Characteristics associated with mental health care utilization were race/ethnicity, insurance status, level of education in the child's family, living situation, and previous diagnosis of a developmental disorder. Among roughly 2.9 million rural children with a potential mental health problem as defined by the SDQ score, two thirds (68.1%) are living in a HPSA-mental health designated area. This translates to over 1.9 million children with mental health problems but living in areas where very minimal to no resources are available for their care. Executive summary available online.
  • Preventing Hospitalization in Depressed Rural Patients
    Author(s): Scott J. Adams, Stanley Xu, Fran Dong , Kathryn Rost
    Research center: WICHE Center for Rural Mental Health Research
    Topic: Mental health
    Date: 09 / 2005
    The purpose of this research was to investigate the substitution of higher cost hospitalization for lower cost outpatient specialty care for depression and the extent to which insurance barriers impact service substitution patterns of outpatient specialty care for depression in rural and urban areas. The study found that depressed rural patients were hospitalized more than their urban counterparts over two years, with statistically greater hospitalization rates at 6 months and statistically greater length of stays at 12 months. These differential hospitalization rates/lengths were not explained by previous outpatient specialty care treatment, which was comparable for rural and urban patients. Insurance barriers predict reduced use of specialty care in depressed urban patients, but not in depressed rural patients. Full report available on request.
  • Community-Level Risk Factors for Depression Hospitalizations
    Author(s): John Fortney, Gerard Rushton, Scott Wood, Lixun Zhang, Kathryn Rost
    Research center: WICHE Center for Rural Mental Health Research
    Topics: Mental health, Rural statistics and demographics
    Report Number: Working Paper
    Date: 09 / 2005
    Examines the association between depression hospitalization rates and community-level socio-demographic, economic, and health care system characteristics.
  • Community-Level Risk Factors for Depression Hospitalizations (Fact Sheet)
    Author(s): John Fortney, Gerard Rushton, Scott Wood, Lixun Zhang, Stan Xu, Fran Dong, Kathryn Rost
    Research center: WICHE Center for Rural Mental Health Research
    Topics: Mental health, Rural statistics and demographics
    Date: 09 / 2005
    Overview of findings from a study to identify community-level risk factors for depression hospitalizations and geographic areas with elevated hospitalization rates.
  • Depression in Rural Populations: Prevalence, Effects on Life Quality, And Treatment-Seeking Behavior
    Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Sarah Laditka, Charity G. Moore, Nusrat Harun, M. Paige Powell
    Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Health disparities, Mental health
    Date: 05 / 2005
    Using the National Health Interview Survey and the NHIS-administered depression scale from the Comprehensive International Diagnostic Interview to explore depression among rural versus urban residents, the authors found that the prevalence of major depression was significantly higher among rural (6.11%) than among urban (5.16%) populations. However, nearly all individuals scoring positive for depression reported that their symptoms interfered with their life or activities (46.67% rural, 44.25% urban). Persons without any health insurance were less likely to have communicated with a physician than were the privately or publicly insured. Additionally, the likelihood that an individual with depression would have communicated with a practitioner rose as the person's self reported health declined. Executive summary available online.
  • Depression in Rural Populations: Prevalence, Effects on Life Quality, and Treatment-Seeking Behavior (Fact Sheet)
    Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Health disparities, Mental health
    Date: 2005
    To explore the prevalence of selected mental health diagnoses across rural populations, including rural minority residents, they studied information obtained by the 1999 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), a nationally representative survey of more than 30,000 U.S. adults.
  • Mental Health Risk Factors, Unmet Needs, and Provider Availability for Rural Children (Fact Sheet)
    Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Children, Mental health
    Date: 2005
    Children in rural areas have fewer mental health resources available. To assess the need for services among rural children, they studied information from the 2001 National Health Interview Survey, a nationally representative survey of the U.S. population. Possible mental health problems were identified based on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ).
  • Effects of Race and Poverty on Perceived Stress Among Rural Women
    Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Charity G. Moore, Elizabeth G. Baxley
    Research center: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Mental health, Minority health, Poverty, Women
    Citation: Coward RT, Davis LA et al, Eds., Rural women's health: Mental, behavioral and physical issues. p. 197-215. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company
    Date: 2005
  • One Size Fits Some: the Impact of Patient Treatment Attitudes On the Cost-Effectiveness of a Depression Primary Care Intervention
    Author(s): Jeffrey M. Pyne, Kathryn M. Rost, Farah Farahati, Shanti P. Tripathi, Jeffrey Smith, D. Keith Williams, John Fortney, James C. Coyne
    Research center: WICHE Center for Rural Mental Health Research
    Topic: Mental health
    Citation: Psychological Medicine, 35(6), 839-854
    Date: 2005
    Reports the results of a study that estimated the impact of patient receptivity to antidepressant medication on the cost-effectiveness of an evidence-based primary-care depression intervention.
  • Role of Social Support and Stressful Life Events in the Effectiveness of Collaborative Care for Depression: A Rural-Urban Comparison
    Author(s): K. Albright, John C. Fortney, Scott J. Adams, Stanley Xu, F. Dong
    Research center: WICHE Center for Rural Mental Health Research
    Topic: Mental health
    Date: 2005

2004

  • Are Advanced Practice Nurses A Solution To Rural Mental Health Workforce Shortages?
    Author(s): David Hartley, Valerie Hart, Nancy Hanrahan, Stephenie Loux
    Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Mental health, Nurses, Workforce
    Report Number: Working Paper No. 31
    Date: 04 / 2004
    Summarizes the clinical skills and prescriptive authority of Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses (APPNs), and investigates current trends in their geographic distribution to determine what their future role may be in addressing rural mental health needs. Includes information on prescription authority and collaboration requirements for each state, as well as state distribution of APPNs.

2002

  • State Licensure Laws and the Mental Health Professions: Implications for the Rural Mental Health Workforce
    Author(s): David Hartley, Erika C. Ziller, David Lambert, Stephenie L. Loux, Donna C. Bird
    Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Legislation and regulation, Mental health, Workforce
    Report Number: Working Paper No. 29
    Date: 05 / 2002
    Investigates whether and the extent to which licensure laws that determine the permissible scope of practice for each of these professions may affect the availability of mental health services, particularly in rural communities. Findings: Licensure laws authorize non-physician mental health providers to practice assessment, treatment planning, and individual and group counseling independently in most of the 40 states studied. Many states do not explicitly grant the authority to all of these professions for diagnosis or psychotherapy, but none explicitly deny it. Despite this finding, Medicare and some other payers do not directly reimburse Marriage and Family Therapists or Licensed Professional Counselors. Laws that require clinical supervision of newly trained practitioners to be performed exclusively by a member of the profession in a face-to face setting may make it difficult for a new graduate seeking rural practice to log the number of required hours within the specified time limit to qualify for independent practice. Some states' laws allow supervision that is not face-to-face, a rural-friendly policy. Also discussed are the nature and effects of guild behavior in the mental health professions. Based on the findings, report recommends that states simplify licensure and clarify clinical roles by combining regulatory functions for several professions into a single office or agency; that Medicare reconsider its position on reimbursing Marriage and Family Therapists or Licensed Professional Counselors; that professional competition over the right to practice and be reimbursed be addressed; and that supervision requirements be modified to allow new mental health professional graduates to address rural needs soon after graduation.
  • Role of Community Mental Health Centers as Rural Safety Net Providers
    Author(s): David Hartley, Donna C. Bird, David Lambert, John Coffin
    Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), Mental health
    Report Number: Working Paper No. 30
    Date: 05 / 2002
    Investigates the extent to which those organizations formerly designated as community mental health centers (CMHCs) currently act as a rural mental health safety net, e.g., provide mental health services for free or at reduced charges to rural populations not covered by public or private insurance or grants. Findings: Based on three comparative case studies, CMHCs continue to believe that it is within their mission to act as a mental health safety net, but all three also acknowledged that their priority population is now SPMI (serious and persistent mental illness) adults and SED (seriously emotionally disturbed) children. Their ability to serve indigent clients who do not fall into these categories depends on their ability to cross-subsidize such services with funds designated for their priority populations. These providers were also able to fund some safety net services with grant funds made available through federal and regional programs, often targeted to outreach and prevention. In Minnesota and Oregon, county government and county funded social services also supplemented the safety net in meaningful ways. Lacking such county involvement, the Maine CMHC was forced to use waiting lists to manage the demand for free care. We conclude that county funding and grant writing are two ways that CMHCs have been able to plug the otherwise widening hole in the rural mental health safety net. Based on the findings, the report recommends an explicit discussion of the mental health safety net, both urban and rural, using the Institute of Medicine's report on America's Health Care Safety Net as a model. Also recommended are outreach programs to facilitate access to services for rural residents experiencing stress, depression and anxiety, and a shift from diagnosis-specific funding to the use of a family systems approach for those thus referred.

2001

  • Addressing Mental Health Workforce Needs in Underserved Rural Areas: Accomplishments and Challenges
    Author(s): Donna C. Bird, Patricia Dempsey, David Hartley
    Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Mental health, Workforce
    Report Number: Working Paper No. 23
    Date: 10 / 2001
    Reviews efforts to address mental health workforce needs in underserved rural areas and addresses three questions: 1) How is health and mental health workforce adequacy currently measured? 2) How do unique characteristics of rural communities and the mental health service delivery system challenge current methods for determining workforce adequacy? 3) What role has the federal government played in addressing health and mental health workforce needs in underserved rural areas? Finds that current workforce adequacy measurements all focus on physicians and are limited by the lack of a commonly accepted way to obtain needed data and by widely varying estimates of adequate population-to-provider ratios. In addition, the pluralistic and minimally coordinated nature of the mental health services system makes it difficult to translate methods for estimating workforce adequacy from health to mental health. Finally, there are several federal efforts to address workforce needs that foster training, provide scholarships, fund demonstration programs, and allow foreign medical graduates to serve in underserved areas. Makes several recommendations pertaining to the collection of data, field-testing of estimation models, and increasing the supply of mental health service providers.
  • Admission Severity and Mortality Rates Among Rural and Urban Nursing Facility Residents with Dementia (Research & Policy Brief)
    Author(s): Elise J. Bolda, Kimberly Mooney Murray
    Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Long term care, Mental health
    Date: 09 / 2001
    Assesses whether the potentially higher utilization of nursing facility services in rural communities can be attributed to differences in use patterns by older adults with dementia. Specifically, addresses the question of whether rural nursing facility residents with dementia are less impaired at the time of their admission to a nursing facility than urban residents with dementia.
  • Medicaid Managed Behavioral Health Programs in Rural Areas (Research and Policy Brief)
    Author(s): David Lambert, John Gale, Donna Bird, David Hartley
    Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Medicaid and S-CHIP, Mental health
    Date: 08 / 2001
    Study of which states have implemented Medicaid managed behavioral health (MMBH) programs in rural areas. Describes these programs in terms of Medicaid populations served, program design, and implementation model. Describe the experience of programs regarding access to and coordination of services.
  • Medicaid Managed Behavioral Health in Rural Areas
    Author(s): David Lambert, John Gale, Donna Bird, David Hartley
    Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Topics: Medicaid and S-CHIP, Mental health
    Report Number: Working Paper No. 24
    Date: 01 / 2001
    Study of which states have implemented Medicaid managed behavioral health (MMBH) programs in rural areas. Describes these programs in terms of Medicaid populations served, program design, and implementation model. Describe the experience of programs regarding access to and coordination of services.

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