Behavioral Health Services Following Implementation of Screening in Massachusetts Medicaid Children
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Behavioral health services following implementation of screening in Massachusetts Medicaid children.
OBJECTIVES To determine the relationship of child behavioral health (BH) screening results to receipt of BH services in Massachusetts Medicaid (MassHealth) children. METHODS After a court decision, Massachusetts primary care providers were mandated to conduct BH screening at well-child visits and use a Current Procedural Terminology code along with a modifier indicating whether a BH need was ...
متن کاملScreening for behavioral health issues in children enrolled in Massachusetts Medicaid.
OBJECTIVES To understand mandated behavioral health (BH) screening in Massachusetts Medicaid including characteristics of screened children, predictors of positive screens, and whether screening identifies children without a previous BH history. METHODS Massachusetts mandated BH screening in particularly among underidentified groups. 2008. Providers used a billing code and modifier to indicat...
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OBJECTIVE In 2007 in Massachusetts, a settlement of a class-action lawsuit on behalf of Medicaid beneficiaries mandated that primary care practices perform developmental, behavioral, and mental health screening using formal tools. The aim of this study was to assess perspectives from providers and practice staff about implementing developmental and mental health screening in response to the jud...
متن کاملIncreases in behavioral health screening in pediatric care for Massachusetts Medicaid patients.
OBJECTIVE To explore rates of screening and identification and treatment for behavioral problems using billing data from Massachusetts Medicaid immediately following the start of the state's new court-ordered screening and intervention program. DESIGN Retrospective review of the number of pediatric well-child visits, number of screens, and number of screens that identify risk for psychosocial...
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This study was funded by a grant from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, DHHS (Grant # CSUR00003-03). The opinions and conclusions expressed in the paper are the authors' and no endorsement by the University of Southern Maine or the funding source is intended or should be inferred.
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عنوان ژورنال: PEDIATRICS
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0031-4005,1098-4275
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2014-0453