Characteristics and Growth of Managed Behavioral Health Care Firms

Health Affairs

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 127-130

  Kihlstrom, Lucy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; FORECASTING; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL WELFARE; UNITED STATES;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COST CONTROL; FORECASTING; HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS, EMPLOYEE; HUMANS; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIAL WELFARE; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346158695     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.16.4.127     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. J. Wojcik, "UR's Role Switching to Physician Educator," Business Insurance (15 February 1993): 16, 18.
2. T. Giles, Managed Mental Health Care: A Guide for Practitioners, Employers, and Hospital Administrators (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1993).
3. Business Insurance (24 June 1991). Subsequent directories appeared in issues 8 June 1992, 21 June 1993, 27 June 1994, and 26 June 1995. Each reported on the previous calendar year.
4. Information provided by the American Managed Behavioral Healthcare Association is available in The 1996 Behavioral Outcomes and Guidelines Sourcebook (New York: Faulkner and Gray, 1996). Additional information can be found in Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow, published by CentraLink.
5. Information provided by the American Managed Behavioral Healthcare Association is available in The 1996 Behavioral Outcomes and Guidelines Sourcebook (New York: Faulkner and Gray, 1996). Additional information can be found in Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow, published by CentraLink.
6. R. Geraty et al., "The Impact of Managed Behavioral Healthcare on the Costs of Psychiatric and Chemical Dependency Treatment," Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow (March/April 1994): 28.
7. For a description of the sampling frame and decision algorithms used to match firm name changes across the five-year period, please contact the author at the Center for Mental Health Services Research, Suite 405, 2020 Milvia Street, Berkeley, California 94720.
8. See L.C. Kihlstrom, "Managed Behavioral Health Care Firms: Will They Become the Future?" (Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego, California, 1 November 1995).
9. L.C. Kihlstrom, "Managed Behavioral Health Care: A Case for Institutional Theory?" in Research in the Sociology of Health Care, vol. 15, ed. J.J. Kronenfeld (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, forthcoming).
10. T. Trabin and M. Freeman, Managed Behavioral Healthcare: History, Models, Strategic Challenges, and Future Course (Tiburon, Calif.: CentraLink Publications, 1995).
11. For a chronological list of the mergers and acquistions that have occurred in the field, see "Mergers and Acquisitions Change the Face of Industry," OPEN MINDS: The Behavioral Health Industry Analyst (Gettysburg, Pa.: OPEN MINDS, December 1996), 4-7.
12. Kihlstrom, "Managed Behavioral Health Care Firms;" and Kihlstrom, "Managed Behavioral Health Care."
13. Kihlstrom, "Managed Behavioral Health Care Firms;" and Kihlstrom, "Managed Behavioral Health Care."
14. See R.G. Frank, T.G. McGuire, and J.P. Newhouse, "Risk Contracts in Managed Mental Health Care," Health Affairs (Fall 1995): 50-64.
15. A. Rosenblatt and C.C. Attkisson, "Assessing Outcomes for Sufferers of Severe Mental Disorder: A Conceptual Framework and Review," Evaluation and Program Planning 16, no. 4 (1993): 347-363.
16. See "Mergers and Acquisitions."