Behavioral Health Care Quality Among Marketplace Insurers in 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Using 2019 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data, the authors analyzed performance on behavioral health care quality measures among 168 marketplace insurers offering 185 products and investigated whether performance differed by insurer attributes.

Methods

The authors considered four quality measures: antidepressant medication management, follow-up care for children prescribed attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder medication, follow-up care within 7 days after hospitalization for mental illness, and initiation and engagement of alcohol and other drug dependence treatment. Multivariate regression was used to determine whether performance varied by insurers' nonprofit ownership, Blue Cross-Blue Shield affiliation, Medicaid-managed care participation, and

SUBMITTER: Abraham JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7855409 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature