Preventive Interventions under Managed Care: Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

January 4, 2001 This report was written by Sharon Dorfman and published in January 2001. In the report, Dorfman states that programs and services that prevent substance abuse and mental health disorders have the potential to lessen an enormous burden of suffering and to reduce both the cost of future treatment and lost productivity at work and home. The availability and accessibility of these interventions to the millions of Americans whose health care is provided by managed care organizations depend upon the services? status as covered benefits.To compile and disseminate that evidence, the Offices of Managed Care in both . . .