Brandeis/Harvard Center on Managed Care and Drug Abuse Treatment
NIDA Center Papers/Publications
Forthcoming
Merrick EL, Hodgkin D, Hiatt D, Horgan CM, McCann B. EAP service use in a managed behavioral health care organization: From the employee perspective. Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health (forthcoming Spring 2011).
Merrick ESL, Hodgkin D, Hiatt D, Horgan CM, Greenfield SF, McCann B. Integrated employee assistance program/managed behavioral health plan utilization by persons with substance use disorders. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, PMC Journal - In Process. Epub ahead of print, December 23, 2010. http://www.
2011
Azzone, V., Frank, R. G., Normand, S. L., & Burnam, M. A. (2011). Effect of parity legislation on substance abuse treatment. Psychiatr Serv, 62, 129-134.
2010
Chatterji P, & Meara E. (2010). Consequences of eliminating federal disability benefits for substance abusers. J Health Econ, 29(2), 226-240. PMCID: PMC2842468
Daley M, Shepard D, Reif S, Dunigan R, Tompkins C, Perloff J, et al. (2010). Evaluation of provider profiling in public sector substance abuse treatment. Alc Treatment Q, 28(4), 376-390.
Daley M, Shepard DS, Tompkins C, Dunigan R, Reif S, Perloff J, et al. (2010). Randomized trial of enhanced profiling in substance abuse treatment. Adm Policy Ment Health. Epub ahead of print. NIHMS233101
McCann B, Azzone V, Merrick EL, Hiatt D, Hodgkin D, & Horgan CM. (2010). Employer choices in employee assistance program design and worksite services. Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, 25(2), 89-106. PMCID: PMC2801078
Merrick EL, Hodgkin D, Hiatt D, Horgan CM, Azzone V, McCann B, et al. (2010). Patterns of service use in two types of managed behavioral health care plans. Psychiatr Serv, 61(1), 86-89. PMCID: PMC2801078
Reif S, Horgan C, Torres M, & Merrick E. (2010). Economic grand rounds: types of practitioners and outpatient visits in a private managed behavioral health plan. Psychiatr Serv, 61(11), 1066-1068. PMC Journal - In Process.
Stevenson DG, Decker SL, Dwyer LL, Huskamp HA, Grabowski DC, Metzger ED, Mitchell SL. (2010). Antipsychotic and benzodiazepine use among nursing home residents: findings from the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry, 18(12):1078-92. NIHMS257638
2009
Azzone V, McCann B, Merrick EL, Hiatt D, Hodgkin D, & Horgan CM. (2009). Workplace stress, organizational factors and EAP utilization. Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, 24, 344-356.
Danziger S, Frank RG, Meara E. Mental illness, work, and income support programs. Am J Psychiatry. 2009;166(4):398-404. PMCID: PMC2713574.
Garnick DW, Lee MT, Horgan CM, Acevedo A, & Washington Circle Public Sector, W. (2009). Adapting Washington Circle performance measures for public sector substance abuse treatment systems. J Subst Abuse Treat, 36(3), 265-277. PMCID: PMC2653590
Merrick ES, Hodgkin D, Horgan CM., Hiatt D, McCann B, Azzone V, et al. (2009). Integrated employee assistance program/managed behavioral health care benefits: relationship with access and client characteristics. Adm Policy Ment Health, 36(6), 416-423. PMCID: PMC2794127
2008
McCann B, Hiatt D, & Merrick EL. (2008). Following the pathways to substance use treatment. Behavioral Healthcare, 28(1), 36-37.
Meara E, & Greenfield SF. (2008). The relationship between substance use patterns and economic and health outcomes among low-income caregivers and children. Psychiatr Serv, 59(9), 974-981. PMCID: PMC2562316
2007
Frank RG, & Garfield RL. (2007). Managed behavioral health care carve-outs: past performance and future prospects. Annu Rev Public Health, 28, 303-320.
Garnick DW, Horgan CM, Lee MT, Panas L, Ritter GA, Davis S, et al. (2007). Are Washington Circle performance measures associated with decreased criminal activity following treatment? J Subst Abuse Treat, 33(4), 341-352. PMCID: PMC2692984
Merrick EL, Volpe-Vartanian J, Horgan CM, McCann B. Revisiting employee assistance programs and workplace substance abuse: key issues and a research agenda. Psychiatr Serv. 2007;58(10):1262-4.
2006
Brolin MF, Horgan CM, & Doonan M. (2006). Substance Abuse Treatment in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Gaps Consequences and Solutions, a Policy Brief for the Mass Health Policy Forum.
Garnick DW, Horgan CM, & Chalk M. (2006). Performance measures for alcohol and other drug services. Alcohol Res Health, 29(1), 19-26.
Meara, E. (2006). Welfare reform, employment, and drug and alcohol use among low-income women. Harv Rev Psychiatry, 14(4), 223-232.
2005
Tompkins C, Merrick EL, Reif S, & Horgan CM. (2005). The behavioral health workforce: financing issues. Report commissioned by the Annapolis Coalition on the Behavioral Health Workforce.
Horgan CM, & Garnick DW. (2005). The quality of care for adults with mental and addictive disorders: Issues in performance measurement. Background paper commissioned by Institute of Medicine Committee - Crossing the Quality Chasm: Adaptation to Mental Health and Addictive Disorders.
Meara E, & Frank RG. (2005). Spending on substance abuse treatment: how much is enough? Addiction, 100(9), 1240-1248. PMCID: PMC1402649
Jonkman, J. N., McCarty, D., Harwood, H. J., Normand, S. L., & Caspi, Y. (2005). Practice variation and length of stay in alcohol and drug detoxification centers. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 28(1), 11-18.
2004
Greenfield SF, Azzone V, Huskamp H, Cuffel B, Croghan T, Goldman, W., et al. (2004). Treatment for substance use disorders in a privately insured population under managed care: costs and services use. J Subst Abuse Treat, 27(4), 265-275.
Brandeis Health Plan Survey Publications
Hodgkin D, Horgan CM, Garnick DW, & Merrick EL. (2009). Benefit limits for behavioral health care in private health plans. Adm Policy Ment Health, 36(1), 15-23. PMCID: PMC2644559
Horgan CM, Garnick DW, Merrick EL, & Hodgkin D. (2009). Changes in how health plans provide behavioral health services. J Behav Health Serv Res, 36(1), 11-24. PMCID: PMC2653590
Merrick EL, Horgan CM, Garnick DW, Reif S, & Stewart MT. (2009). Accessing specialty behavioral health treatment in private health plans. J Behav Health Serv Res, 36(4), 420-435. PMC Journal - In Process.
Garnick DW, Horgan CM, Reif S, Merrick EL, & Hodgkin D. (2008). Management of behavioral health provider networks in private health plans. J Ambul Care Manage, 31(4), 330-341. PMC Journal - In Process
Horgan CM, Reif S, Hodgkin D, Garnick DW, & Merrick EL. (2008). Availability of addiction medications in private health plans. J Subst Abuse Treat, 34(2), 147-156. PMCID: PMC2347353
Merrick EL, Horgan CM, Garnick DW, Hodgkin D, & Morley M. (2008). Health plans' disease management programs: extending across the medical and behavioral health spectrum? J Ambul Care Manage, 31(4), 342-353. PMC Journal- In Process
Garnick DW, Horgan CM, Merrick EL, & Hoyt A. (2007). Identification and treatment of mental and substance use conditions: health plans strategies. Med Care, 45(11), 1060-1067.
Hodgkin D, Horgan CM, Garnick DW, Merrick EL, & Volpe-Vartanian J. (2007). Management of access to branded psychotropic medications in private health plans. Clin Ther, 29(2), 371-380.
Horgan CM, Garnick DW, Merrick EL, & Hoyt A. (2007). Health plan requirements for mental health and substance use screening in primary care. J Gen Intern Med, 22(7), 930-936. PMCID: PMC2219728
Horgan CM, Merrick EL, Reif S, & Stewart M. (2007). Internet-based behavioral health services in health plans. Psychiatr Serv, 58(3), 307.
Merrick EL, Volpe-Vartanian J, Horgan CM, & McCann B. (2007). Alcohol & drug abuse: Revisiting employee assistance programs and substance use problems in the workplace: key issues and a research agenda. Psychiatr Serv, 58(10), 1262-1264.
Related behavioral health publications by NIDA Center researchers
Garnick DW, Lee MT, Horgan CM, Acevedo A, Botticelli M, Clark S, et al. (Forthcoming). Lessons from five states: Public sector use of Washington Circle performance measures. J Subst Abuse Treat. PMC Journal - In Process.
Reif S, Horgan CM, Garnick DW, & McLellan DL. Systems-level smoking cessation activities by private health plans. Prev Chron Dis. 2011;8(1). http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2011/jan/09_0236.htm. PMC Journal - In Process.
Thomas CP, Garnick DW, Horgan CM, McCorry F, Gmyrek A, Chalk M, et al. Advancing performance measures for use of medications in substance abuse treatment. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2011;40:35-43. PMCID: Journal in Process.
Garner BR, Godley MD, Funk RR, Lee MT, & Garnick DW. (2010). The Washington Circle continuity of care performance measure: predictive validity with adolescents discharged from residential treatment. J Subst Abuse Treat, 38(1), 3-11. PMCID:PMC2789887
Hodgkin D. (2010). Guest editor's introduction: Mental health in a time of economic contraction. Int J Mental Health, 39, 2.
Hodgkin D, & Karpman H. (2010). Economic crises and public spending on mental health care. Int J Mental Health, 39, 91-106.
Merrick EL, & Reif S. (2010). Services in an era of managed care. In B. M. Levin BL (Ed.), A Public Health Perspective of Women's Mental Health (pp. 201-227). New York: Springer.
Horgan CM, Merrick EL, Stewart MT, Scholle SH., & Shih S. (2008). Improving medication management of depression in health plans. Psychiatr Serv, 59(1), 72-77.
Merrick EL, Hodgkin D, Horgan CM, Garnick DW, & McLaughlin TJ. (2008). Changing mental health gatekeeping: effects on performance indicators. J Behav Health Serv Res, 35(1), 3-19.
Merrick EL, Horgan CM, Hodgkin D, Garnick DW, Houghton,SF, Panas L, et al. (2008). Unhealthy drinking patterns in older adults: prevalence and associated characteristics. J Am Geriatr Soc, 56(2), 214-223. PMCID: PMC2585680
Thomas CP, Reif S, Haq S, Wallack SS, Hoyt A, & Ritter GA. (2008). Use of buprenorphine for addiction treatment: perspectives of addiction specialists and general psychiatrists. Psychiatr Serv, 59(8), 909-916.
Hodgkin D, Volpe-Vartanian J, & Alegria M. (2007). Discontinuation of antidepressant medication among Latinos in the USA. J Behav Health Serv Res, 34(3), 329-342. PMCID: PMC2669720
Busch AB, Frank RG, Lehman AF, & Greenfield SF. (2006). Schizophrenia, co-occurring substance use disorders and quality of care: the differential effect of a managed behavioral health care carve-out. Adm Policy Ment Health, 33(3), 388-397. PMCID: PMC2084476
Merrick EL, Horgan CM, Garnick DW, & Hodgkin D. (2006). Managed care organizations' use of treatment management strategies for outpatient mental health care. Adm Policy Ment Health, 33(1), 104-114.
Chang G, & Wilcox M. (2005). Case study: a Medicaid health maintenance organization quality initiative for behavioral health. Am J Med Qual, 20(2), 98-103.
Garnick DW, Horgan CM, Hodgkin D, Merrick EL, Goldin D, Ritter G, et al. (2001). Risk transfer and accountability in managed care organizations' carve-out contracts. Psychiatr Serv, 52(11), 1502-1509.
Merrick EL. (1998). Treatment of major depression before and after implementation of a behavioral health carve-out plan. Psychiatr Serv, 49(12), 1563-1567.