Providing Behavioral Health Services to Medicaid Managed Care Enrollees: Options for Improving the Organization and Delivery of Services

June 29, 2009 This report is divided into the following sections: (1) a vision for delivering and financing physical and behavioral health services in New York; (2) an overview of how the Medicaid benefit for Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries with serious and persistent mental illness (SPMI) is structured; (3) an examination of what is needed to better understand the target population; (4) an analysis of how to integrate and improve the delivery of physical and behavioral health services; and (5) a discussion of concrete options for New York's policymakers. There are no easy solutions for the challenges that New . . .