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Mental health coverage within prepaid health plans

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The authors examine the extent and nature of mental health coverage within health maintenance organizations. Information was gathered on staffing and referral patterns, service location, and planning and administration of mental health services within health maintenance organizations. Findings from this national survey help clarify the present extent to which mental health services are integrated within health maintenance organizations in the context of the growing importance of health maintenance organizations as an alternative health care delivery system.

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  1. Bruce Lubotsky Levin
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  2. Jay H. Glasser
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Bruce Levin, M.P.H., is a doctoral candidate and Jay Glasser, Ph.D., is an associate professor of biometry at The University of Texas School of Public Health, Post Office Box 20186, Houston, Texas 77025. This study was supported in part by the Mental Health Administration Traineeship Program at The University of Texas School of Public Health via grant #5 A04 AH02517 02 from the Bureau of Health Manpower, Health Resources Administration, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

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Levin, B.L., Glasser, J.H. Mental health coverage within prepaid health plans. Administration in Mental Health 7, 271–281 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00820456

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