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Covering Managed Care
A resource guide for reporters and editors

 

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MENTAL HEALTH AND MANAGED CARE

There are strong feelings on this subject that involve practitioners' incomes, health plan profits, and patient care.

American Psychiatric Association

1400 K St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005, (202) 682-6000, fax (202) 682-6255, Web site: www.psych.org. Director of public affairs John Blamphin; contact Melissa Saunders Katz (202) 682-6142. Represents 42,000 psychiatrists whose practices have been altered by managed care. Publishes a magazine, Psychiatric Practice & Managed Care.

American Psychological Association

750 1st St. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002, (202) 336-5500, fax (202) 336-5708, Web site: www.apa.org. Public relations associate Tricia Alvarez; director of public relations and special projects Jan Peterson. Represents 155,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students. Supplies fact sheets and studies on legal and regulatory affairs, marketplace issues, and legislation.

American Managed Behavioral Health Association

700 13th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005, (202) 434-4565, fax (202) 434-4564. Contact Pamela Greenberg, executive director. The association's members manage mental health benefits for employers and government health programs such as Medicaid and CHAMPUS.

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

200 North Glebe Rd., Arlington, Va. 22203, (703) 524-7600, fax (703) 524-9094. Web site: www.nami.org. Communications director Mary Rappaport; executive director Laurie Flynn. Organization monitors managed care from the perspective of those needing services for mental illness. Issued a report card on nine companies that manage mental health benefits. The report cards looked at such things as access to new medications, adherence to treatment guidelines, and family involvement.

National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals & Consumers, Inc.

Box 438, Commack, N.Y. 11725, (516) 424-5232, fax (516) 549-3942, e-mail: NCMHPC@aol.com, Web site: www.nomanagedcare.org. Press contact: Michelle Curia Copoulos; president Karen Shore. Organization of professionals and consumers that dislikes managed care and believes it can't be fixed.