Idaho Office Of Performance Evaluations Report #16-01, Design Of The Idaho Behavioral Health Plan

In this report released in January 2016, the Idaho Office Of Performance Evaluations assessed the design of the Idaho Behavioral Health Plan (IBHP), a Medicaid managed care outpatient behavioral health carve-out that launched in September 2013 under a contract with Optum Idaho. The performance evaluation was focused on the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) design and implementation of the IBHP to respond to legislators’ concerns that the program design may have been the root cause of provider organization reimbursement delays and long call hold times that occurred shortly after the IBHP went live. The report includes trend . . .