New York Office Mental Health Ambulatory Restructuring Project Report

New York Office of Mental Health Ambulatory Restructuring Project Report

Year of publication
2009
Description

DMA prepared a comprehensive review focused on system needs, geographic variation in utilization, and new payment policies. Recommendations included "1) Development of "recovery home" or "clinical home" models in which case managers coordinate care for, and bear responsibility for outcomes of, the consumers they serve. 2) Under Medicaid 1915(b) waiver authority, consider pilot managed mental health care approaches (such as organized delivery systems) that cover one or more counties.