Adult
Aged, Blind, and Disabled Clients Served by the Mental Health Division
Characteristics and Use of Services, Fiscal Year 2001
This report provides a detailed description
of clients served by the Mental Health Division who were eligible for
medical assistance in the aged, blind, or disabled programs in fiscal
year 2001. Using Medicaid claims data on mental health diagnoses, the
researchers found that seven out of ten clients with a diagnosis of
psychosis or manic/bipolar received publicly funded mental health services
while only five out of ten with depression or adjustment/stress disorder
and only three in ten with dementia received mental health services
recorded through the Mental Health Division. Clients who received Mental
Health Division services were more likely to have received medical care
for such illnesses as poisoning by medicinal and biological substances,
injuries, infections, headaches and asthma than other aged or disabled
adult clients. Future research will examine whether there are medical
cost offsets associated with the provision of Mental Health Division
services.
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Mental Health Division, Characteristics and Use of Services,
Fiscal Year 2001."Publication Date: 01/2003. Report Number
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Adult
Aged, Blind, and Disabled Clients Served by the Mental Health Division
Characteristics and Use of Services, Fiscal Year 2001
