Managed Behavioural Healthcare Handbook

Fourteen contributed chapters underscore the challenges and successes of behavioral health care within the US managed care system. Ross, CEO of Children and Adults with Attention- Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Inc. in Landover, MD, overviews these issues and managed care as public policy. The other medical administrators, academics, and business specialists treat such topics as the evolution of managed care, its impact on payment, the concept of medical necessity, the integration of behavioral and primary health care, patients' rights, private and public purchaser expectations of benefits, accountability, barriers to quality care for the seriously mentally ill and those with addictive disorders, and competition among interest groups. Includes the medical necessity standards of several states' Medicaid contracts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)