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Current changes require that behavioral health care leaders understand how public and private financing mechanisms interact and how, now more than ever, behavioral health care leadership must span multiple systems and financing streams. Understanding how financing mechanisms work, what they create, and what they cause is essential if we are to make the most of increasingly limited and increasingly complex resource streams in today's health care market. This article explores a different paradigm of what adds value to publicly funded behavioral health care systems, and provides the framework for the American College of Mental Health Administration's call to behavioral health care administrators to take a new approach to the considerations behind funding decisions and payment mechanisms.
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The ACHMA Workgroup Financing Results and Value in Behavioral Health Services. Adm Policy Ment Health 31, 85–110 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:APIH.0000003016.99550.7e
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:APIH.0000003016.99550.7e