Articles by Heidi C. Waters, PhD
Impact of Medicaid Institution for Mental Diseases Exclusion on Serious Mental Illness Outcomes
ByOnur Baser, PhD, MS,Heidi C. Waters, PhD,Nehir Yapar, BS,Katarzyna Rodchenko, MA, MPH,Lauren Isenman, MPH,Xue Han, PhD,Deborah Freedman, MBA,Rashmi Patel, MD, PhD Medicaid’s Institution for Mental Diseases (IMD) rule bars federal funding for psychiatric facilities with more than 16 beds, but findings indicate that state waivers allowing treatment of serious mental illness in IMDs do not increase overall psychiatric hospitalizations.
Implementing a claims-based algorithm and disease management program may be an effective strategy to reduce relapse and cost among patients with schizophrenia.
