USBH Renews Contract With PacTel

OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry News Pacific Telesis Group has renewed its managed behavioral health care contract with U.S. Behavioral Health (USBH) of Emeryville, California. The contract will be part of PacTel’s plan to institute a managed care network to replace indemnity health plans and selected HMOs. The 1989 collective bargaining agreement between PacTel and its unions called for the creation of the managed care network. The network will be administered by CIGNA and is expected to be available to 90% of PacTel’s 70,000 employees. The behavioral health benefit available . . .