Behavioral Health Business January 3, 2024
Access to and utilization of services was not better at integrated managed care organizations – Medicaid plans that do not carve out behavioral health services – compared to other models.
That’s according to a new study published in JAMA, which analyzed claims-based measures of utilization, health-related outcomes, rates of arrests, employment and homelessness.
Historically, Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) have carved out behavioral health services. This meant patients would get behavioral health benefits coverage through a different plan. However, in recent years, states have pushed to integrate behavioral and physical health coverage.
In the study, which used a cohort of 145,185 individuals ages 13 to 64, researchers did not find an association with “changes in claims-based measures of utilization and...
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