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The case for a services-based approach to payment for mental illness under national health care reform. 1993

H H Goldman, and D A Adler, and J Berlant, and J Docherty, and R Dorwart, and J M Ellison, and K Pajer, and S Siris, and S Kapur
Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201.

In this position paper drafted by the committee on psychopathology of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, the authors discuss merits and disadvantages of three different approaches to equitable coverage of mental illness: coverage for selected psychiatric diagnoses, coverage based on severity of impairment, and coverage of services. They believe that coverage of selected disorders has political appeal but is discriminatory and arbitrary; it is also impractical because clinicians may overdiagnose conditions covered by insurance and underdiagnose excluded conditions. Coverage based on severity of impairment, or disability, has similar limitations. The authors believe services should be the principal basis for coverage, as under general medical insurance. The approach is nondiscriminatory, and costs can be controlled through such means as managed care, changes in the payment system, or benefit design.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007358 Insurance, Psychiatric Insurance providing benefits to cover part or all of the psychiatric care. Insurances, Psychiatric,Psychiatric Insurance,Psychiatric Insurances
D003156 Community Mental Health Services Diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive mental health services provided for individuals in the community. Community Mental Health Service,Mental Health Services, Community,Assertive Community Treatment,Health Services, Community Mental,Services, Community Mental Health,Services, Mental Health Community,Community Treatment, Assertive,Treatment, Assertive Community
D003361 Cost Allocation The assignment, to each of several particular cost-centers, of an equitable proportion of the costs of activities that serve all of them. Cost-center usually refers to institutional departments or services. Cost Apportionment,Cost Shifting,Allocation, Cost,Allocations, Cost,Apportionment, Cost,Apportionments, Cost,Cost Allocations,Cost Apportionments,Cost Shiftings,Shifting, Cost,Shiftings, Cost
D004185 Disability Evaluation Determination of the degree of a physical, mental, or emotional handicap. The diagnosis is applied to legal qualification for benefits and income under disability insurance and to eligibility for Social Security and workmen's compensation benefits. Disability Evaluations,Evaluation, Disability,Evaluations, Disability
D004608 Eligibility Determination Criteria to determine eligibility of patients for medical care programs and services. Eligibility Certification,Certification, Eligibility,Certifications, Eligibility,Determination, Eligibility,Determinations, Eligibility,Eligibility Certifications,Eligibility Determinations
D006291 Health Policy Decisions, usually developed by government policymakers, for determining present and future objectives pertaining to the health care system. Health Care Policies,Health Policies,Healthcare Policy,National Health Policy,Care Policies, Health,Health Care Policy,Health Policy, National,Healthcare Policies,National Health Policies,Policies, Health,Policies, Health Care,Policies, Healthcare,Policy, Health,Policy, Health Care,Policy, Healthcare
D006297 Health Services Accessibility The degree to which individuals are inhibited or facilitated in their ability to gain entry to and to receive care and services from the health care system. Factors influencing this ability include geographic, architectural, transportational, and financial considerations, among others. Access To Care, Health,Access to Care,Access to Contraception,Access to Health Care,Access to Health Services,Access to Medications,Access to Medicines,Access to Therapy,Access to Treatment,Accessibility of Health Services,Availability of Health Services,Contraception Access,Contraceptive Access,Medication Access,Accessibility, Health Services,Contraceptive Availability,Health Services Geographic Accessibility,Program Accessibility,Access to Cares,Access to Contraceptions,Access to Medication,Access to Medicine,Access to Therapies,Access to Treatments,Access, Contraception,Access, Contraceptive,Access, Medication,Accessibilities, Health Services,Accessibility, Program,Availability, Contraceptive,Care, Access to,Cares, Access to,Contraception, Access to,Contraceptive Accesses,Health Services Availability,Medication Accesses,Medication, Access to,Medicine, Access to,Medicines, Access to,Therapy, Access to,Treatment, Access to
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001523 Mental Disorders Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function. Mental Illness,Psychiatric Diseases,Psychiatric Disorders,Psychiatric Illness,Behavior Disorders,Diagnosis, Psychiatric,Mental Disorders, Severe,Psychiatric Diagnosis,Illness, Mental,Mental Disorder,Mental Disorder, Severe,Mental Illnesses,Psychiatric Disease,Psychiatric Disorder,Psychiatric Illnesses,Severe Mental Disorder,Severe Mental Disorders
D014481 United States A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.

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