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Case Mix Adjustment in Behavioral Health Care
The Evaluation Center@HSRI has just released Fast Facts issue #4 entitled "The most recent Evaluation Fast Fax discusses the use of case mix adjustment in behavioral health care. Also known as risk adjustment, case mix adjustment refers to statistical methods to controlling for group characteristics that that influence some outcome of interest. The FastFacts discusses uses in actuarial analyses such as capitation rate setting, services research (for post-hoc comparison of outcomes for non-equivalent groups), and … Read More
Date: 11/2004
Author(s): The Evaluation Center
The Performance Improvement Project
In 2003, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) promulgated new regulations requiring Medicaid managed behavioral health organizations to conduct annual Performance Improvement Projects (PIPs). This manual, developed in association with the National Association of County Behavorial Health Directors and the California Institute for Mental Health, provides a step by step approach to all phases of developing, implementing, and evaluating Performance Improvement Projects, with detailed information and resources presented in format and language designed to … Read More
Date: 10/2004
Author(s): Dow A. Wieman, Ph.D., Robert Egnew, M.S.W., M.P.H., Ed Diksa, ScD
The National Registry of Effective Programs and Practice (NREPP)
This issue concerns recent developments and plans for the future of NREPP. … Read More
Date: 07/2004
Author(s): The Evaluation Center at HSRI
The NTAC Training Curriculum for the Reduction of Seclusion and Restraint
The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) and its National Technical Assistance Center for State Mental Health Planning (NTAC) have identified the creation of a violence and coercion-free mental health treatment environment as a priorty. … Read More
Date: 05/2004
Author(s): The Evaluation Center at HSRI