Looks at the issues facing mental health professionals in regards to managed care health networks.

This volume explores policy, programmatic, and research issues in the health and behavioural health care system known as managed care. Discussions include such areas as the evolution of health care from essential social good to a commodity, cost of and access to care, parity of behavioural health services reimbursement and more.

This text aims to provide answer to questions such as what happens when you get dropped from a managed care panel? How do you get paid? Why can't you get on a managed care panel? This book is an extended question and answer session where issues are tackled from the providers perspective.; Armed with the resources, examples and explanations provided in this book, clinicians will be positioned to make the decisions that contribute to success under managed care.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In an effort to add clarity to the rapidly developing field of managed mental health care, Kevin Corcoran and Vikki Vandiver approach the field with expertise and research meant to help mental health professionals meet the needs of both managed mental health care and their clients. As practitioners of every discipline are learning to cope with the ever-shifting world of the managed mental health care system, a variety of demands, restrictions, and procedures from the authorization of treatment to the evaluation of services cloud the practice and deter professionals from utilizing it with their clients. In order to add a sense of uniform and procedure to the field, Corcoran and Vandiver have created a guide to understanding managed mental health care, complete with a variety of tools used by managed care organizations to demonstrate the need for clinical services and the structure of systematic interventions while evaluating the quality of care. Helping practitioners and students in every mental health discipline, Maneuvering the Maze of Managed Care inspires its readers to work effectively, efficiently, and successfully with their clients within the purview of managed mental health care.

A unique series of cases based on a fictional family selecting and using a health plan is presented and a glossary is provided which defines basic concepts frequently encountered in the managed care field.

Case managers provide an indispensable service, acting as both experts and liaisons to the wide variety of services, resources, and opportunities available to their clients. The authors use their extensive practice, classroom, and research experience to delineate clearly the steps of the case management process and to address the myriad roles case managers fill in different practice situations. By detailing the various processes and goals of case management and the different populations they help, the authors present a resource that is invaluable not only to social workers, but also to case managers in nursing centers, community mental health facilities, and criminal justice centers. The third edition of this book is updated to reflect the constantly changing nature of the helping professions. New and updated references provide readers with an array of options for pursuing specific aspects of case management. The book is attentive to the evolving needs of a variety of populations, and it now contains a new section on working with members of the military and their families. This edition also contains new information on case management within larger organizations that provide mental health services.