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Faces of Medicaid: Examining Children's Behavioral Health Service Utilization and Expenditures.
Pires, Sheila.
Grimes, Katherine.
Gilmer, Todd.
Allen, Kamala.
Mahadevan, Roopa.
Center for Health Care Strategies.
Technical Report
99 p.
Copyright
Published: 2013
Download: http://www.chcs.org/media/Faces-of-Medicaid_Examining-Childrens-Behavioral-Health-Service-Utilization-and-Expenditures1.pdf
This study sought to: 1) Examine overall patterns of behavioral health service use and expense for Medicaid-insured children and youth in the U.S.; 2) Examine psychotropic medication use and expense for Medicaid-insured children; 3) Better understand the associated patterns of physical health service use and expense for these children; and 4) Describe profiles of behavioral health service use for Medicaid-insured children in foster care, as well as for children with developmental disabilities. (Author abstract)
Keywords:
Medicaid; foster care; foster children; mental health services; use studies; expenditures; statistics; children with disabilities; child health services