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Funding Quality Mental Health Care: Opportunities and Challenges. Ken Wells (Moderator). Session Objective.
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Funding Quality Mental Health Care: Opportunities and Challenges Ken Wells (Moderator)
Session Objective • To identify tensions for private and public insurers/purchasers in defining and implementing incentives for quality mental health care, given cost containment goals, and their resources and constraints. • To illustrate insurer/purchaser-academic partnerships that address those tensions. • To ponder how to advance quality in mental health care.
Themes • Diverse insurers and purchasers can engage in partnerships to define and support incentives for quality improvement for mental health services. • Such efforts are challenged by competing demands and priorities of diverse stakeholders, real-time changes in systems and quality measurement limitations.
Themes (cont.) • Research investments have lead to better data for planning and programs that support quality care (e.g., depression). • Opportunities to implement quality initiatives or to reformulate policy goals to support them, benefit from research partnerships. • These partnerships challenge the expectations and conventions of current research fields, systems, and funders.
Presenters • United Behavioral Health • Lisa Meredith (RAND) • Francisca Azocar (UBH) • Medicaid • Benjamin Druss (Emory) • Mark Trail (Medicaid, Georgia) • Medicare • Michael Schoenbaum (RAND)