Brandeis/Harvard Center on Managed Care and Drug Abuse Treatment
NIDA Center Papers/Publications
Are Washington Circle performance measures associated with decreased criminal activity following treatment? Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, forthcoming.
Substance abuse, welfare reform, and employment. A review. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, forthcoming.
Revisiting EAPs and workplace substance abuse: Key issues and a research agenda. Psychiatric Services, forthcoming.
Managed behavioral health care carve-outs: past-performance and future prospects. Annual Review of Public Health; 28, 303-320. 2007.
Performance measures for alcohol and other drug services. Alcohol Research and Health; 29:1. 2006.
Welfare reform, employment, and drug and alcohol use among low-income women. Harvard Review of Psychiatry; 14: 223-232. 2006.
The Quality of Care for Adults with Mental and Addictive Disorders: Issues in Performance Measurement. Confidential draft to the IOM Committee on Crossing the Quality Chasm: Adaptation to Mental Health and Addictive Disorders. Revised January 10, 2005.
Practice variation and length of stay in alcohol and drug detoxification centers. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment; Vol. 28, pp. 11-18. 2005.
Spending on Substance Abuse Treatment: How Much is Enough? Addiction; Vol. 100(9), pp. 1240-1248. September 2005.
Treatment for substance use disorders in a privately insured population under managed care. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment; Vol. 27(4), pp. 265-275. December 2004.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services in Health Plans: Results from a Nationwide Study. Summary Report to Respondents. Supported by NIAAA 2RO1AA10869-04A1 and NIDA 1RO1DA10915-05). September 2004.
The EAP/behavioral health carve-out connection. Employee Assistance Quarterly; 18(3):1-14. 2003.
Performance measures for outpatient substance abuse services: group versus individual counseling. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment; 25, pp. 271-278. 2003. Also accepted and presented at the American Public Health Association 131st Annual Meeting and Exposition, "Impact of type of treatment on outcomes in substance abuse outpatient programs," November 17, 2003.
The severity index: An indicator of alcohol and drug dependence using administrative data. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly; Vol. 19(4). 2001.
Benefits in behavioral health carve-out plans of Fortune 500 firms. Psychiatric Services; 52:943-948. 2001.
Employee assistance programs among Fortune 500 firms. Employee Assistance Quarterly; 16(3):25-35. 2001.
Why Carve Out? Determinants of Behavioral Health Contracting Choice Among Large U.S. Employers. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research; 27(2):178-192. 2000.
The Fortune 500: Carve-Out Contracts with Behavioral Healthcare Vendors in 1999. Brandeis University Summary Report to Respondents. 2000.
Structuring behavioral health care: carved-out or integrated? Compensation & Benefits Management; 16(4):39-46. 2000.
Use of performance standards in behavioral health carve-out contracts among Fortune 500 firms, American Journal of Managed Care; 5:SP81-SP90. 1999.
Other related publications by NIDA Center staff
Identification and treatment of mental and substance use conditions: Health plans strategies. Medical Care, forthcoming.
The availability of addiction medications in private health plans. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, forthcoming.
Management of access to branded psychotropic medications in private health plans. Clinical Therapeutics; 29:371-380. 2007.
Internet-based behavioral health services in health plans. Psychiatric Services; 58(3):307, 2007.
Health plan requirements for mental health and substance use screening in primary care. Journal of General Internal Medicine; 2007, May 4 E-publication; print forthcoming July 2007.
Managed care organizations’ use of treatment management strategies for outpatient mental health care. Administration and Policy in Mental Health; 33(1):104-114 2006.
Managed behavioral health care: lessons from Massachusetts. Administration and Policy in Mental Health; 32(4):311-320. March 2005.
Unmet need for substance abuse treatment of adults in Massachusetts. Administration and Policy in Mental Health; 32(4):403-426. March 2005.
Cost-effectiveness of Connecticut's in-prison substance abuse treatment. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation; 39(3):69-92. 2004.
A publicly managed medicaid substance abuse carve-out: effects on spending and utilization. Administration and Policy in Mental Health; 31(3):197-217. 2004.
The value of vocational rehabilitation in substance user treatment: a cost-effectiveness framework. Substance Use and Misuse; 39(13&14):2581-2609. 2004.
Cost sharing for substance abuse and mental health services in managed care plans. Medical Care Research and Review; 60(1):101-116. 2003.
The Provision of Mental Health Services in Managed Care Organizations. DHHS Pub. No. (SMA) 03-3797. Rockville, MD: Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. 2003.
Selecting data sources for substance abuse services research. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment; 22(1): 11-22. 2002.
Managed care plans' requirements for screening for alcohol, drug and mental health problems in primary care. American Journal of Managed Care; 8(10):879-888. 2002.
Establishing the feasibility of performance measures for alcohol and other drugs. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment; 23:375-385. 2002
Quality standards and incentives in managed care organizations' specialty contracts for behavioral health. Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics; 5:61-69. 2002.
Alcohol and drug services under managed care: Getting into specialty treatment. In Magura S, Horgan CM, Mertens JS, Shepard DS, Effects of managed care on alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research; 26(3):416-422. 2002.
Quality measurement and accountability for substance abuse and mental health services in managed care organizations. Medical Care; 40(12):1238-1248. 2002.
Risk transfer and accountability in managed care organizations' carve-out contracts. Psychiatric Services, 52:1502-1509. 2001.
Financing of substance abuse treatment services. In: Recent Developments in Alcoholism, Vol. XV: Services Research in the Era of Managed Care. M Galanter (Ed.). New York: Plenum Publishing. 2001.
Developing performance measures for alcohol and other drug services in managed care plans. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement; 26(11):633-643. 2000.


