Insurance, Psychiatric - Economics
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Monday, November 23, 2009

State variations in the out-of-pocket spending burden for outpatient mental health treatment.

29 Apr 2009 We examine the potential of mental health/substance abuse (MH/SA) parity laws to reduce the out-of-pocket spending burden for outpatient treatment at the state level by exploring cross-state variations and their causes, as well as the provisions of ... Read more...

Hospital psychiatry for the twenty-first century.

29 Apr 2009 Economic policies have shaped the provision of hospital psychiatric care. The main theme of the past fifty years has been the shift from long-stay public hospitals to acute care provided in private settings. States have reduced their costs by ... Read more...

Implementing mental health parity: the challenge for health plans.

29 Apr 2009 By design, the new mental health parity law should work harmoniously with innovations that have helped slow down growth in mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) treatment costs and improve their quality. The main purpose of the new law is to put ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Insurance, Psychiatric - Economics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• State variations in the out-of-pocket spending burden for outpatient mental health treatment. 29 Apr 2009
• Hospital psychiatry for the twenty-first century. 29 Apr 2009
• Implementing mental health parity: the challenge for health plans. 29 Apr 2009
• After parity--what's next. 29 Apr 2009
• Trends in mental health cost growth: an expanded role for management? 29 Apr 2009
• Better but not best: recent trends in the well-being of the mentally ill. 29 Apr 2009
• [Privatization of regional Lower Saxony hospitals and its sequelae] 13 Jan 2009
• Caring for children with mental disorders: do state parity laws increase access to treatment? 30 May 2008
• Evaluating health care programs by combining cost with quality of life measures: a case study comparing capitation and fee for service. 15 Mar 2008
• Telepsychiatry reduces geographic physician disparity in rural settings, but is it financially feasible because of reimbursement? 28 Feb 2008
• Financing mental health and substance use disorder care within physical health: a look to the future. 28 Feb 2008
• Deciphering the cost impact of managed care in Medicaid. 30 Jan 2008
• A public policymaker's response: Weisleder and Meyer on legislator decision-making. 30 Dec 2007
• Paying a high price for mental health. Paltry insurance coverage could soon get a boost. 3 Nov 2007
• Considering health insurance parity for mental health and substance abuse treatment: the Federal Employees Health Benefits experience. 29 Sep 2007
• Beware the IDEs of March. 30 Aug 2007
• Mental health treatment expenditure trends, 1986-2003. 30 Jul 2007
• An investor's view of the mental health coverage issue. 29 Jun 2007
• True mental health parity. 30 Dec 2006
• The political evolution of mental health parity. 29 Jun 2006

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Technical information about 'Insurance, Psychiatric'

Definition: Insurance providing benefits to cover part or all of the psychiatric care.

Descriptor UI: D007358

Alternative terms: Insurance, Psychiatric; Insurances, Psychiatric; Psychiatric Insurance; Psychiatric Insurances;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N03.219.521.576.343.658;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: specify geog if possible