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Office of Mental Health

Behavioral Health Managed Care

Medicaid Managed Care plans and Medicaid providers work with Medicaid enrollees to create a person-centered service system focused on recovery. The goal is to integrate physical and behavioral health to improve health outcomes.

Person-centered means providers listen to the person receiving care, helping them understand their choices. With person-centered care you can be in control of your own life and recovery.

Principles and Recommendations for Moving to Managed Care:

  • Coordinated Care
  • Integration of physical and behavioral health services
  • Recovery oriented services
  • Patient/consumer choice
  • Protection of continuity of care
  • Ensure adequate and comprehensive networks
  • Tying payment to outcomes
  • Track physical and behavioral health spending separately (firewall)
  • Reinvest savings to improve services for behavioral health populations
  • Address the unique needs of children, families and older adults

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Please contact OMH Managed Care with any questions, comments, or problems you may be experiencing with this site. If you would like to file a complaint about behavioral health managed care, please visit the Information on Filing a Complaint page. Providers, if you have any questions about the managed care implementation, please complete and send a question form.