Medicaid Value-Based Payments and Health Care Use for Patients With Mental Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Medicaid patients with mental illness comprise one of the most high-need and complex patient populations. Value-based reforms aim to improve care, but their efficacy in the Medicaid program is unclear.

Objective

To investigate if New York state's Medicaid value-based payment reform was associated with improved utilization patterns for patients with mental illness.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study used a difference-in-differences analysis to compare changes in utilization between Medicaid beneficiaries whose outpatient practices participated in value-based payment reform and beneficiaries whose practices did not participate from before (July 1, 2013-June 30, 2015) to after reform (July 1, 2015-June 30, 2019). Participants wer

SUBMITTER: Lewis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10517380 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature