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Managed Mental Health Care: Stakeholder Effects and Policy Implications
Author(s) -
Ambrose Jan M.,
Doerpinghaus Helen I.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
risk management and insurance review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.386
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1540-6296
pISSN - 1098-1616
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6296.2000.tb00029.x
Subject(s) - managed care , mental health , stakeholder , business , health care , mental health care , public policy , public health insurance , health policy , health care delivery , service delivery framework , public economics , public relations , health insurance , service (business) , medicine , marketing , economics , economic growth , political science , psychiatry
During the past several years, healthcare delivery in the United States has shifted from a primarily fee‐for‐service system toward managed care. Mental health care has been affected disproportionately by this trend. The existing literature on managed mental health care is abundant, but narrowly focused. The purpose of this study is to take a broader public‐policy approach, considering simultaneously the effects on system stakeholders: patients, providers, employers, insurers, and society.