Increased Medicaid Financing and Equalization of African Americans' and Whites' Outpatient and Emergency Treatment Expenditures.

CONCLUSIONS: With new funding that requires no matching funds from the county, county mental health systems did reduce outpatient treatment expenditure inequalities. This was found to be true in counties that initially favored African Americans and in counties that initially favored Whites. Adopting a systems level perspective and taking account of initial conditions and trends can be critical for understanding inequalities. PMID: 27572144 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27572144?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics - September 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Tags: J Ment Health Policy Econ Source Type: research