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Identifying
Innovations in Substance Abuse Treatment for People with Disabilities
through Managed Care
This project is a collaboration between the HDWG at the Boston University
School of Public Health and the Boston University School of Social
Work, and is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Substance Abuse Policy
Research Program. The overall goal of this project is to identify
innovative practices in providing substance abuse treatment services
to individuals with a wide range of disabilities through Medicaid
managed care.
To complete
the project, we will complete the follow activities:
- A thorough
literature review on both Medicaid managed care and substance
abuse issues among people with disabilities;
- Identify
states that enroll people with disabilities in Medicaid managed
care programs and that also purchase substance abuse treatment
services through these programs;
- Conduct a
telephone survey of a range states that meet these criteria;
- Based on
the results of the telephone survey, conduct site visits to at
least five managed care programs that appear to have innovative
substance abuse models for serving people with disabilities; and
- Disseminate
the results of our findings.
Through the Winter
of 2001, we have completed the first three activities and have also
completed the majority of our site visits. Additional site visits
are planned for the Spring-Summer of 2001. A preliminary paper on
the results of the telephone survey and our preliminary research has
been accepted for publication in the American Journal of Addictions,
and we are currently working on additional articles for publication.
In addition, we have disseminated our findings and conducted a workshop
at the Robert Wood Johnson Substance Abuse Policy Research Program
annual meeting in December 2000.
Key
staff involved in this project are Sara
Bachman, Ph.D. at the Boston University School of Social Work,
and Mari-Lynn Drainoni, Ph.D.
and Carol Tobias, M.M.H.S., at the
HDWG.
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