Children's Mental Health Services in Fee-for-Service Medicaid

This study analyzed annual service use and payment data for children in racial/ethnic subgroups in Medicaid Programs of four States, and compared service use of youth treated with mental health or substance abuse (MH/SA) conditions to youth without such conditions. In addition to geographic variatio...

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Autores principales: Larson, Mary Jo, Miller, Kay, Sharma, Shyamal, Manderscheid, Ronald
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CENTERS for MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES 2004
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4194885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15776697
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Sumario:This study analyzed annual service use and payment data for children in racial/ethnic subgroups in Medicaid Programs of four States, and compared service use of youth treated with mental health or substance abuse (MH/SA) conditions to youth without such conditions. In addition to geographic variation in rates (6.2 to 10.7 percent used MH/SA related care), results showed children who used MH/SA services to be disproportionately older, male, and white when compared with all Medicaid children. Examination of costs per claimant found costs for the MH/SA population of children to be three to six times greater than a comparison sample.

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