The Provision of Mental Health Services in Managed Care Organizations

Table III.1: Percentage of Specialty Contracts for Claims and Administration1 With Written Performance Standards

  HMO POS PPO Total
Administration        
Claims processing (if yes to claims processing function) 50.9% 32.4%* 12.5%** 40.4%
Staffing/network (if yes to provider network function) 71.7 84.3** 16.6** 66.4
Administrative reporting 91.9 90.9 22.8** 80.5
Member services phone response 87.6 85.8 15.3** 75.6
Any administrative 93.2 90.9 24.5** 81.6
Quality Related        
Quality assurance system 73.3 87.4** 15.8** 67.6
HEDIS behavioral health measures 66.9 78.9* 12.6* 61.2
Patient satisfaction 85.4 78.8 14.3** 72.4
Provider satisfaction 81.1 74.9 8.3** 67.8
Any quality related 92.6 90.6 18.0** 80.1
Enrollee Focused        
Disenrollment 33.0 5.3* 2.5* 21.3
Complaints and appeals 87.6 82.2 94.9 87.4
Any enrollee focused 87.6 82.2 94.9 87.4
Total (any performance standards) 93.2 90.9 100.0 93.7

1 The answer category "don't know" was under 2.0% with the exception of claims processing in HMOs (14.6%); claims processing in total (8.3%), POS plans (7.2%), and total (3.8%); provider satisfaction in PPOs (2.6%); and disenrollment in HMOs (3.6%).
* Different from HMO value at p <0.05 level.
** Different from HMO value at p0.01 level.
Note: HEDIS = Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set.

Source: Garnick et al., 2001.

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