Empirically identified networks of healthcare providers for adults with mental illness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Policies target networks of providers who treat people with mental illnesses, but little is known about the empirical structures of these networks and related variation in patient care. The goal of this paper is to describe networks of providers who treat adults with mental illness in a multi-payer database based medical claims data in a U.S. state.

Methods

Provider networks were identified and characterized using paid inpatient, outpatient and pharmacy claims related to care for people with a mental health diagnosis from an all-payer claims dataset that covers both public and private payers.

Results

Three nested levels of network structures were identified: an overall network, which included 21% of providers (N = 8256) and 97% of patients (N = 476,802), fi

SUBMITTER: Breslau J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8349008 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature