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Evidence points to the existence of two coexisting inefficiencies in mental health care resource allocation: those with need receive too limited or no care while those with no apparent need receive services. In addition to reducing costs, managed mental health care is expected to reallocate treatment resources to those with greater need for services. However, there are no empirical findings regarding this issue. This study tests whether managed mental health care has had a differential impact by level of need. Data consist of three waves of a community sample with a control group. The study finds that managed care has not succeeded in reallocating resources from the unlikely to the definite “needers.”
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Alegría, M., McGuire, T., Vera, M. et al. Does managed mental health care reallocate resources to those with greater need for services?. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 28, 439–455 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02287774
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