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January 2003

Recent Trends, Challenges and Issues in Funding Public Mental Health Services in the US
March 2002

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October 2001

 

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daily link  Monday, November 11, 2002


Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Examines New Medicaid Rules for Children's Mental Health Care
Item at the Kaiser Network Daily Health Policy Report on the newspaper's investigation of a state contract with First Health Services of Arkansas, a subsidiary of Illinois-based First Health Group, intended to determine which requests by providers for children's mental health treatments were medically necessary -- "but providers say required paperwork under the system is 'too time-consuming,' denial of payment 'has become routine' and certain diagnoses and treatments are 'unfairly targeted'.."  
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