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Cover Story | Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS
Our January issue is focused on “the money” – current spending in specific niches of health and human services and how financing and reimbursement models are changing how those financial resources reach the consumers who are receiving services. You will find a...
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Industry Analysis |
By Laura L. Morgan, Market Intelligence Manager, OPEN MINDS
The health and human service market is a complex web of public and private funding where each payer has its own
intricate, sometimes contradictory, set of rules. Even when a provider
organization has a good understanding of what it costs them to deliver a service...
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By Laura L. Morgan, Market Intelligence Manager, OPEN MINDS
In 2005, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) estimated that national spending on mental health treatment totaled $113 billion. Of that total, public payers accounted for the majority (59%) of the total...
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By Laura L. Morgan, Market Intelligence Manager, OPEN MINDS
In 2005, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), spending on addiction treatment in the United States totaled $22 billion. Public payers accounted for the vast majority of spending (79%) at $18 billion...
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Industry Analysis |
By Laura L. Morgan, Market Intelligence Manager, OPEN MINDS
In
2010,
according
to
Child
Trends,
total
funding
in
support
of
child
welfare
services
was
roughly
$29.3
billion
in
combined
federal,
state,
and
local
funds.
Federal
funding
in
support
of
child
welfare
services
was
$13.5
billion
in
2010,
and
included
$1
billion...
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Industry Analysis |
By Laura L. Morgan, Market Intelligence Manager, OPEN MINDS
In 2009, public spending on developmental disability programs (DD
or I/DD) totaled $53.21 billion for DD services and income maintenance, according to analysis by the University of Colorado. Of the total, 58% ($30.6 billion) was spent on DD disability...
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Industry Analysis |
By Laura L. Morgan, Market Intelligence Manager, OPEN MINDS
In 2007, social support spending total $375.3 billion in the United States, according to the Rockefeller Institute of Government. The majority of the spending came from federal funds passed down to state and local public agencies through intergovernmental...
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Industry Analysis |
By Laura L. Morgan, Market Intelligence Manager, OPEN MINDS
In 2010, spending on disease management services totaled $2.8 billion, according to The Disease Management Purchasing Consortium. Of those individuals receiving care, 18.7 million (25.4%) are in disease management programs targeting behavioral...
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Industry Analysis |
By Laura L. Morgan, Market Intelligence Manager, OPEN MINDS
In 2010, federal and state spending on juvenile justice totaled $6.4 billion, with state spending comprising the majority at 96%. The American Correctional Association reports that the per diem costs of placing one youth in a juvenile facility...
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Industry Analysis |
By Laura L. Morgan, Market Intelligence Manager, OPEN MINDS
In 2010, according to The Bureau of Justice Statistics, spending on adult corrections in the United States totaled $81.5 billion. Of that total, 8% was in federal spending; the federal government spent $6.2 billion on the federal prison system in 2010...
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Executive Briefing
| By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS & Sarah C. Threnhauser, Executive Vice President, OPEN MINDS
States made it eminently clear in 2012 that the use of risk-based financing models is here to stay – 40 states have expanded their use of managed care to manage Medicaid and 18 states opted to utilize some form of capitated payment for their integrated...
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Industry Feature | By Embry Howell, Ashley Palmer, and Fiona Adams
Over the first decade of the 21st century, the role of risk-based managed health care for publicly insured beneficiaries has expanded substantially. This report examines this form of health care delivery in 20 states for both Medicaid and CHIP nonelderly adults and...
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From The Expert |
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS
Managed care continues as a primary disruptive influence in today’s health care industry. Provider organizations need to be prepared to replace the outdated modes of managing funding streams in the traditional fee-for-service...
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From The Expert |
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS
The "more is better" thinking that has traditionally dominated the health and human service field is slowly, but surely, diminishing. I recently read a great take on the pressures facing health and human service managers in a great Q&A the former...
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