NAMI Maine Recommends State End Direct Service Role to Improve Behavioral Health Care & Cut Costs

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire – Mental Health & Chemical Dependency Services The State of Maine can improve behavioral heath care and cut costs by discontinuing its direct service role and concentrating on funding, policy, and outcomes, according to the Maine chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI Maine). Since the state seeks to move their current medical assistance program (MaineCare) to a managed care model, whichever managed care organization is selected to provide services should be required to only contract with provider organizations that provide integrated behavioral health and medical care, and the contracts should be driven by . . .