Hilltop’s Research Presented at NIMH Conference

Three research works were presented at the National Institute of Mental Health’s 21st Conference on Mental Health Services Research, held in Washington DC, on July 27-28, 2011. Improving Inpatient Psychiatric Payment Using Modified APR-DRGs (authors: Donald Steinwachs, David Salkever, Norbert Goldfield, Anthony Lehman, Michael Kaminsky, Michael Abrams, Elizabeth Skinner, Maureen Fahey, Hamid Fakhraei) was a presentation which summarized findings from a study of the costs associated with inpatient psychiatric events, as well as correlates to those costs which might be used to engineer case-rate billing procedures. Imminent Enrollment Lapses in Medicaid after Psychiatric Hospitalizations in Young Adults (authors: Maryann Davis, Michael Abrams, Lawrence Wissow, Eric Slade) was a poster presentation on work that reviewed factors associated with Medicaid disenrollment in the wake of discharges from an inpatient psychiatric event for persons age 18-26, which used classification and regression tree (CART) and probit analyses to focus on the strongest predictors of such disenrollment. Effects of Medicaid Lapses on Young Adults’ Use of Outpatient Services after Inpatient Stays, (authors: Eric Slade, Larry Wissow, Maryann Davis, Michael Abrams) was a slide presentation on a review of correlates between Medicaid enrollment discontinuities and outpatient mental health service use and among young adults age 18-26 who experienced a inpatient psychiatric event. For more information, contact Hilltop Senior Research Analyst Michael Abrams.

August 1, 2011