Parity in Financing Mental Health Services: Managed Care Effects on Cost, Access, and Quality. Interim Report to Congress by the National Advisory Mental Health Council.

摘要

In Senate Report No. 105-58, the National Advisory Mental Health Council (NAMHC) was thanked for its 1997 report Parity in Coverage of Mental Health Services in an Era of Managed Care, and asked to provide additional reports on this topic as more data from throughout the country become available. The NAMHC was also asked to provide as a fundamental part of its next report on this topic, what is known about the impact of managed care on access to mental health services, and on the quality of the care that is made available. The following is submitted in response to that request.