Newsletter Articles | March 1, 2012
Policy Update From Kaiser Commission On Medicaid & The Uninsured: Recent Issues In Financing Behavioral Health Care
Policy Update From Kaiser Commission On Medicaid & The Uninsured: Recent Issues In Financing Behavioral Health Care
Over time, the United States’ behavioral health system has developed into a complex arrangement of payers, providers, and patients. Most notably, financing has shifted from a centralized system of state dollars administered through state mental health agencies to a mix of public and private funding administered through multiple programs in various settings. Mental health and substance abuse services are now financed by states and counties, the federal-state Medicaid program, the federal Medicare program, private insurance coverage, and patients’ out-of-pocket expenditures . . .