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Managed Care and Mental Health Services: Lessons for Health Care Providers

Medical College of Pennsylvania and Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Managed health care has grown rapidly during the past decade and is likely to continue its expansion during the next several years. Psychiatric services have been subject to especially stringent efforts to control costs, including intensive utilization review and formation of provider networks that primarily utilize master level professionals. Psychiatrists' re sponses to these changes have ranged from antago nistic to proactive. The most effective actions are proactive ones that attempt to shape these new health care systems. A thorough understanding of the impact of managed care upon psychiatry and of psychiatrists' responses can help providers in other medical spe cialties as they develop their own strategies to cope with the changing health care environment.

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