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10565098

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-1-3
pubmed:abstractText
This study examined the possibility that managing behavioral health care services achieves savings by cost shifting--by denying care or impeding access to care--and in that way encouraging patients to seek needed behavioral health care in the medical care system. In 1993, a large industrial company carved out employee behavioral health care from its unmanaged, indemnity medical care benefits and offered employees an enhanced benefit package through a managed behavioral health care company. This study compared the use and cost of behavioral health care and medical care services for two years before the carve-out and for three years afterward. The rate of behavioral health care usage remained the same or increased after the carve-out, while the cost of providing the care decreased. Controlling for trends that began before the inception of managed behavioral health, medical care costs decreased for those using behavioral health care services. No evidence supporting cost shifting was found.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1094-3412
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
26
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
372-80
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Does managing behavioral health care services increase the cost of providing medical care?
pubmed:affiliation
New School University in New York, USA. bcuffe@uhc.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article