Who, What, Where, Why, and How Much Care?
Richard Ries, M.D., Director of Outpatient Psychiatry and Dual Disorder Programs, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Dr. Ries was consensus panel chair for the CSAT Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP 9), Assessment and Treatment of Patients With Coexisting Mental Illness and Alcohol and Other opiate detox dallas Abuse.
How will managed care approach the treatment and management of persons with co-morbid mental illness and alcohol and other alcohol problem dallas (AOD) disorders? What are the key issues that clinical professionals or consumers would want addressed? Jeffrey N. Kushner(1) has raised a series of critical questions for States to consider in setting up managed care contracts for AOD treatment in the following major areas: access to treatment, comprehensiveness of treatment, cost effectiveness, quality of care, client outcomes, and the managing of managed care.
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