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Introducing the Best Practices Compendium for Serious Mental Illness (SMI)
The Medicaid Health Plans of America Center for Best Practices brings you its latest publication, Best Practices Compendium for Serious Mental Illness. As you well know, care for people with serious mental illness (SMI) remains less than optimal, even with Medicaid coverage. In this publication we show that Medicaid health plans are part of the solution for improving quality of care for people with serious mental illness. The compendium highlights challenges in delivering mental health services for people with SMI, outlines important treatment recommendations, and identifies examples of cutting edge approaches used by Medicaid health plans to address needs of people with SMI.
Health plan approaches to more effectively reach, engage and support the recovery of members with SMI are featured in this compendium. Some strategies include:
• Using technology to expand access to psychiatric and other mental health treatment providers;
• Developing peer support and culturally appropriate intake and care management programs;
• Increasing screening for depression, substance use and co-morbid conditions of SMI; and
• Collaborating with specialty providers, community based organizations and other organizations.
The MHPA Center for Best Practices is very pleased to highlight the best practice examples in this publication, featuring both Medicaid health plans and their behavioral health partners. We sincerely thank the MHPA members who contributed the outstanding examples in this report. I encourage members to share this publication and others from the Center for Best Practices with policy-makers and others in your state who need information about the effect of Medicaid health plans.
Download a free PDF copy of MHPA's Best Practices Compendium in Serious Mental Illness or request a print copy at (202) 857-5720 or info@mhpa.org.
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