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Managed care: key to a transformed system: it has an important role in parity's implementation and upcoming reforms.

Publication: Behavioral Healthcare
Publication Date: 01-MAY-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Managed care: key to a transformed system: it has an important role in parity's implementation and upcoming reforms.(PERSPECTIVES)

Article Excerpt
Our industry has not yet absorbed the tremendous changes signed into law last year in the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and the phased-in reforms to Medicare reimbursement, both of which essentially increase behavioral health benefits to the level of general medical benefits. The next profound changes soon could be upon us as the Obama administration pursues healthcare reform. Yet behavioral healthcare is not high on the list of issues being considered in this reform, and this could be a real problem for our industry.

Recent years have witnessed important changes in how behavioral healthcare is conceptualized in both the public and private sectors. Public-sector behavioral healthcare now is focused on recovery and resiliency as achievable goals, and peer-support programs are viewed as critical to recovery as medication and...

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