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Behavioral Health Management articles from September 1999
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Behavioral Health Management archives from September 1999
Treatment Policy ... What Treatment Policy?
September 1, 1999... This summer's release of the 1997 Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) by the Substance and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) presented an opportunity for the Clinton administration to both warn of danger and celebrate success. By...
Unannounced Surveys: What Took So Long?
September 1, 1999... By now most organizations have probably heard the newsflash that the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) is truly making its unannounced surveys unannounced. If you are confused by that, you probably should be....
CUTTING EDGE.
September 1, 1999... Views from a "Manager's Manager"
Interview with Keith Dixon, PhD, President and CEO, Cigna Behavioral Health (formerly MCC Behavioral Health)
If anyone should have a feel for the meaning of "cutting edge management" in the behavioral...
Claims Processing for the Capitated.
September 1, 1999... Analyzing the actual costs behind the claims
Over the past decade, purchasers are increasingly using risk-based payment methodologies (primarily capitation) to finance behavioral health benefits. And, it is more common now to see the...
THE STRENGTH OF NUMBERS.
September 1, 1999... Group Therapy and the New Millennium of Managed Mental Healthcare
Offering group therapy as a primary treatment modality is essential for any provider seeking to serve the public's mental healthcare needs in the next century. To survive and...
ABC: The New Cost-Cutting Tool.
September 1, 1999... Activity-based costing provides a scalpel, not a meat cleaver
Activity-based costing, or ABC, is a process-based costing methodology that measures the cost of activities and "cost objects." ABC originated in the manufacturing industry, and...
The Internet and the EAP.
September 1, 1999... A cost-effective new dimension in service
The World Wide Web has emerged as the first new mass medium in a generation--arguably the fastest-growing new technology in history. The polling company Louis Harris & Associates estimates the...
Addiction Treatment: Gone Yesterday, Gone Tomorrow?
September 1, 1999... A treatment network existed nearly 100 years ago and disappeared. Why?
For years I have been asking audiences of professionals and laypeople when treatment for addiction to alcohol and other drugs began in the United States. Their...
NetOutcomes: Edging Into the Future.
September 1, 1999... The field moves slowly toward realizing its potential
It the managed behavioral healthcare field offers an example of a technology outrunning the market's apparent readiness for it, the University of Arkansas's ground-breaking...
A Management Cutting Edge Tool: The EAP.
September 1, 1999... Recently, in working on a couple of requests for cost-effectiveness data for employee assistance (EA) programs, I tried to find data other than the oft-quoted McDonald-Douglas stuff of 10+ years ago. The way health and benefits coverages are...