Overview

To be effective at persuading insurance companies to pay for treatment, clinicians must know how to manage care themselves. This book offers useful tools they may need such as basic principles and methods for managing care and methods for communicating with patients and managed care organizations that enhance a clinicians ability to practice effectively in a managed care environment.

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9780880487382

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Reviews

This book should be read and referred to frequently by clinicians involved in the delivery of mental health in a managed care environment. * Doody's Health Science Book Review Journal * Michael Isaiah Bennett has written a useful small book that can be read in less than two hours. Although brief, Managing Behavioral Health Care Within a Managed Care Environment is not superficial. The references are well chosen and abundant, so any major point can be followed up by an interested reader. I particularly liked the illustrations of exactly what words might be said in a given circumstance to the patient, the managed care company, or the clinician. Sometimes that author illustrates his point by providing a sentence or two demonstrating the wrong way to address the same issue. The practical approach and sound advice would be helpful to a newcomer to the confusing world of managed care. * Psychiatric Services * Bennett has done a considerable service to present a complex conceptual framework in such succinct and precise fashion. He has managed to explain in a most helpful way how to deal with one of the conundrums that confront the psychiatric clinician. * Journal of Clinical Psychiatry * This brief work on managed behavioral healthcare features many references and well-documented scripts fro use in discussions with patients, payers, and clinicians. . . . [T]his book is considered a useful reference for a newcomer who might feel stymied by some of the lingo and logistics of managed care. * Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow *

<p> This brief work on managed behavioral healthcare features many references and well-documented scripts fro use in discussions with patients, payers, and clinicians.... [T]his book is considered a useful reference for a newcomer who might feel stymied by some of the lingo and logistics of managed care. -- Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow

This brief work on managed behavioral healthcare features many references and well-documented scripts fro use in discussions with patients, payers, and clinicians.... [T]his book is considered a useful reference for a newcomer who might feel stymied by some of the lingo and logistics of managed care. - Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow

Author Information

Michael Isaiah Bennett, M.D., is Medical Director at Mental Health CaseManagement, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

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