Managed care has produced dramatic changes in the treatment of mental health and substance abuse problems, known as behavioral health. Managing Managed Care offers an urgently needed assessment of managed care for behavioral health and a framework for purchasing, delivering, and ensuring the quality of behavioral health care. It presents the first objective analysis of the powerful multimillion-dollar accreditation industry and the key accrediting organizations. Managing Managed Care draws evidence-based conclusions about the effectiveness of behavioral health treatments and makes recommendations that address consumer protections, quality improvements, structure and financing, roles of public and private participants, inclusion of special populations, and ethical issues. The volume discusses trends in managed behavioral health care, highlighting the emerging role of the purchaser. The committee explores problems of overlap and fragmentation in the delivery of behavioral health care and discusses the issue of access, a special concern when private systems are restricted and public systems overburdened. Highly applicable to the larger health care system, this volume will be of particular interest to all stakeholders in behavioral health--federal and state policymakers, public and private purchasers, health care providers and administrators, consumers and consumer advocates, accrediting organizations, and health services researchers.

Look inside the "black box" of managed care. This compilation provides a wealth of recent research & analysis on such topics as the evolution & shape of managed care, managed care & the market, managed care & public programs, & public policy. Also discusses possible future trends for managed care.

In this wide-ranging book, Warren Greenberg surveys the health care industry using the economics of industrial organisations approach. By doing so, he provides the reader with an understanding of the differences between health care and other industries in the economy. As a result, this will be ideal for students in health care economy and policy who need to gain an understanding of this, the single largest sector of the economy.