October 11, 2006

Managed Mental Health Care: Findings from the Literature, 1990-2005

The goals of this report are to provide public and private sector stakeholders in managed mental health care with reliable information regarding the organization, design, delivery, and financing of managed mental health benefits and to guide stakeholders on the best way to apply managed care techniques. Based on recommendations by a panel of experts on managed mental health care that guided research questions organized into four categories: rationales, service delivery, quality of care, and financing, D. Richard Mauery, Lissette Vaquerano, Rachel Sethi, Joanne Jee, and Lisa Chimento conducted a focused review of the literature related to managed mental health care. This article lists the findings of the targeted research questions.