Behavioral Health Management articles from March 1995

Behavioral Health Management archives from March 1995

Provider or insurer? The disappearing difference. (behavioral health delivery systems)(Editorial)
March 1, 1995... As we put together this issue of Behavioral Health Management, with its focus on behavioral health delivery systems, I was struck by how the differences are diminishing between entities known as "providers" and those previously called "insurers"...

Budget-cutters eye behavioral health care.
March 1, 1995... The Clinton Administration's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 1996, released on February 6, promises no major increases m most federal spending on mental health and substance abuse. Hidden within the budget, however, is a promise to combine...

Overview of a changing landscape. (managed care and the behavioral health care delivery system)(Cover Story)
March 1, 1995... Today's behavioral health care industry is evolving at a demanding rate. Service delivery systems are mutating in ways that often loom as incomprehensible to solo practitioners. The development of regional delivery systems, the intimidating and...

The many faces of group practice. (behavioral health care delivery systems)(Cover Story)
March 1, 1995... By now it is a truism that behavioral managed care strongly prefers to work with providers in groups. The solo practitioners of yore are fast becoming isolated and unwanted, unless they happen to be of that rare breed, the "boutique" providers --...

Why CMHCs belong in networks. (community mental health centers)(Cover Story)
March 1, 1995... As behavioral managed care providers expand and deepen their markets, particularly with the advent of Medicaid managed care now in over 40 states, they are likely to find an important ally waiting and ready to help. Community mental health...

In-home behavioral care: the missing link.(Cover Story)
March 1, 1995... In recent years, the professionals and patients involved in the behavioral health continuum have faced the frustration of frequent patient re-hospitalizations. Many alternative treatment models have developed out of the need to reduce utilization...

JCAHO accreditation of behavioral health networks. (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)(Cover Story)
March 1, 1995... Following more than a year of planning and preparation, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations launched the new Health Care Network Accreditation Program in July 1994. The network program establishes a foundation of...

Direct contracting: the provider's edge. (behavioral health services)(Cover Story)
March 1, 1995... Direct contracting is a simple proposition: Employers contracting with suppliers to provide services -- an arrangement that would be considered routine in almost any business field. Except, that is, when it's the health care business. That's...

Computer principles for EAPs (and others). (employee assistance programs)
March 1, 1995... The critical and most difficult step in adopting an information system is to thoroughly think through the program requirements. This article will present experience and criteria for evaluating, selecting or creating a computerized information...

Computerized reports: what employers want. (interview with health care consultant John Bunker)(Interview)
March 1, 1995... "Reporting back to the boss" is a business practice as old as business itself, but for behavioral health care providers whose "bosses" (in a sense) are corporate health plans, reporting is a fairly new concept. Newer still is the concept of using...

Northern Virginia Psychiatric Group - a systems pioneer. (behavioral health care system)
March 1, 1995... Psychiatrist Leonard Goldstein believes the salient future of his profession lies in its strongest therapeutic aspects: the group. "A well-functioning group is more powerful than an individual. A multi-disciplinary group can be more forceful than...

Provider contracting with Value Behavioral Health.
March 1, 1995... What is the philosophy behind and general provisions of preferred provider contracts? How can providers position themselves to succeed in the managed care contracting process? These are the central questions that I asked Rick Lee, Executive Vice...