Southwest Community Behavioral Care Appealing Texas Award

OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry News Southwest Community Behavioral Health Care (SCBHC) is appealing the state's choice of Magellan Behavioral Health and ValueOptions for the Texas NorthSTAR Medicaid behavioral health carve-out. SCBHC contends that one or more of the finalists was given the chance to lower its proposed capitation rate. Officials of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation counter that no one was allowed to change bids, and no bidder was treated specially in the evaluation of bids for the Texas NorthSTAR behavioral health carve-out. The Texas attorney . . .