State Medicaid Plans’ Use Of Limited Benefit Plans To Provide Mental Health Services & Efforts To Coordinate Care

September 30, 2013
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) collected information on enrollment, payments, and services from 13 states that contracted with limited benefit plans to provide mental health services to adult Medicaid beneficiaries. The GAO found that in fiscal year 2012, the 13 states paid a total of about $5.6 billion to limited benefit plans to provide mental health services to about 4.4 million adult Medicaid beneficiaries. The report also identifies steps that four of the states took to coordinate mental and physical health care services.
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