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Article: Managed Care Puts Millions With Severe Mental Illness at Risk, Landmark Study Reveals
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- September 17, 1997
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NAMI's Report Card Flunks Managed Care Industry for Public-Sector Care;
Calls for Major Reforms
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Managed care fails to make the grade in providing adequate care for persons with mental illness in publicly funded programs, according to a national report card released today by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI).
Stand and Deliver: Action Call to a Failing Industry reports that managed care is failing to bring the best clinical practices to people with mental illness and falling short on its promise to reform the public mental health system into an accountable, ...