234288 Carl Taube Award Lecture

Monday, November 8, 2010 : 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM

Teh-wei Hu, PhD , School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
        
Costs, Outcomes, and Financing of Community Mental Health Services: from California to Colorado. Public Mental Health Services are mostly provided at the community level. With limited financial resources at the state and local level, the questions are: (1) how can community mental health care (CMHC) efficiently deliver its services? (2) What are outcomes of alternative payment systems for CMHCs? And (3) what are the incentives for CMHCs to deliver cost/effective mental health services? This presentation will use studies carried out in California and Colorado as examples to address these three questions. The findings indicate that integrated case management and capitation may be an effective service delivery and financing approach to deliver community mental health services.

Learning Areas:
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines

Learning Objectives:
Describe examples of how to carry out a cost-outcome study in community mental health services. Explain how case management and integrated mental health services are key to deliver community mental health services. List alternative methods of financing systems in public mental health services. Explain how capitation may be an effective financing approach to contain cost, but it depends on incentives and design of capitation. Describe the Obama health care reform bill and implications for community mental health services.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been doing research on cost/effective analyses in mental health service during the past 30 years.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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