ValueOptions loses carve-out contract in Colorado.(Brief Article)

Denver-based Access Behavioral Care (ABC) has succeeded in challenging the nation's second-largest managed behavioral health care company, ValueOptions Inc., for one of Colorado's eight mental health carve-out contracts.

A state District Court judge ruled June 29 in favor of ABC, which had filed a successful protest with state officials against the selection of a partnership between ValueOptions and Pikes Peak Community Mental Health Center to continue managing mental health services in the Colorado Springs area.

The judge's decision means that Value Options will lose roughly one third of its public-sector business in Colorado, where it has run three …