Association Between Enrollment in Maryland's Behavioral Health Homes and Use of Outpatient Mental Health Services.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examined the association between enrollment in Maryland's behavioral health home (BHH) program and use of outpatient mental health services among people with serious mental illness.

Methods

The study sample, drawn from Maryland Medicaid administrative claims data from 2012 through 2017, included 12,232 individuals ages 21-64 with a serious mental illness who were enrolled in a BHH (N=3,319) or never enrolled (N=8,913). A marginal structural modeling approach with inverse probability of treatment weighting was used to examine the association between BHH enrollment and outpatient mental health utilization, measured as the number of visits per 3-month period.

Results

BHH enrollment was associated with 0.8 additional outpatient mental health visits pe

SUBMITTER: Presskreischer R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8570965 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature