Behavioral Health

This Handbook is designed to improve understanding and provide greater clarity concerning Medicaid's contribution in supporting working-age adults with serious mental illnesses in the community.

In January 2001, the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program, the largest employer-sponsored health insurance program in the Nation, instituted a mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) parity policy in compliance with an earlier Presidential directive.

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

In the study described in this report, the authors used the Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS) files to examine the use and costs of Medicaid services for beneficiaries with mental illness in one state (New Jersey). This report includes an overview of findings on service use and costs for beneficiaries with mental illness compared with services for other Medicaid beneficiaries.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services   Using Medicaid to Cover Services for Elderly Persons in Residential Care Settings: State Policy Maker and Stakeholder Views in Six States Executive Summary

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Update of ASPE Activities Related to Community-Integration Executive Order for People with Disabilities

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This report clarifies the sources of the tension between providers and payers with regard to what personal information should be shared for patients receiving mental health or substance abuse treatment. It also provides information to support a more consistent application of privacy-sensitive approaches to collecting personal health information in the future.

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HIGHLIGHTS: Inventory of Consumer-Directed Support Programs