Managed Care Tops Texas Legislature Recommendations For Public Behavioral Health System

Managed care topped a list of recent recommendations to the Texas legislature on how to improve the public behavioral health system through improved access, service utilization, patient outcomes, and system efficiencies. The review comes after the state legislature directed the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to arrange for a review of the state’s public mental health system in 2011. In addition to other recommendations, the final report proposed two specific managed care options for the legislature’s consideration: Expand the current standalone managed behavioral health organization (BHO) service delivery model to select areas of the state or . . .