Improving Service Delivery To Medicaid Beneficiaries With Serious Mental Illness: Themes From Roundtable Discussion

In September 2016, the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) released this presentation that reviews the discussion at a June 2016 roundtable convened to provide insight on improving service delivery for adults with serious mental illness (SMI) who have Medicaid coverage. Key themes from the discussion include the need for more research; a sharpened focus on early intervention; how to deploy Medicaid’s flexibility to improve service delivery; strategies to overcome access barriers—including those created by payment policies—and how to forge stronger ties with other programs . . .