I also have a number of references to articles, both hard bound and available on the web, on my other pages. Hewitt Associates. Frank McArdle. He manages their research group in Washington. They research and run employee benefit programs for the majority of Fortune 500 firms. According to them. Also, Dr. Jack Mahoney and Mr. Dale Yamamoto. Latter is chief health care actuary, in national headquarters in Lincolnshire, IL. Chicago based. Jack Bruner leader of Hewitt's national health care program. Washington Business Group on Health. (WBGH) (Mary) Jane England. She has also, I think, been prominent in APA. WBGH is a national nonprofit public policy organization rep 200 of the nation's largest employers. IBM. Jill Kanin-Lovers. Vice-President, Global Human Resources Operations, IBM Corporation Barbara Brickmeier, Program Director, Global Benefits the Corporate Health Care Coalition (CHCC) The Coalition is an alliance of 26 companies formed in 1993 to reflect teh views of large, multi-state, self-insured comapnies on national health care policy. (Testimony before the Subcommittee on Health of the House Committee on Ways and Means, "Hearing on ASsessing Health Care Quality", Feb 26 1998. This group is part of two other organizations that basically oppose state and federal health insurance reform while claiming to be progressive and in the vanguard on employee health benefits.
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Capital Alliance The umbrella organization (and owner of the web site). Diane Link, Campbell Soup Co, employee assistance program administrator They have combined EAP and behavioral managed care. Compaq; Bruce Davidson, employee assistance and worklife programs manager at Compaq. California Women's Health Survey. recent. 1/5 of women surveyed wanted mental health services, only 1/2 got them, worse, those who most wanted them least got them. NIMH Director Steven Hyman MD, chair NAMHC, National Advisory Mental Health Council List of members. Advisory board. co-chair Rex Cowbry or Cowley MD NIMH's acting deputy director. Alan Stone Prof of Law and psychiatry Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA Jeffery Buck CMHS Cetner for Mental Health Services Managed CAre office, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ____ SAMHSA Managed Care Initiative: Who we are contact people for the different branches of this operation. contact at swright@samsa.gov. Bernard Arons, MD NMHA director Michael Faenza pres and CEO of NMHA. APA President elect Allan Jasman, MD. APA? American Psychiatric Association They have a number of press releases and action alerts on managed care, mental health parity, legislation status. The Center for Research on Services for Severe Mental Illness a collaborative effot of Johns Hopkins U and U of Maryland. The center conducts reserach directed at policy, organization, finance and treatment-related isssues for persons with mental illness. Priority is given to research on severe mental illnesses and system capcity to meet the full range of service needs... The center is administratively based in the Health Serrvices Research and Development Center in the Deaprtment of Health Plicy and Management. Co-sponsored by the Department of Mental Hygiene, the Department of Psychiatry of the School of Medicine, and the Department of Psychiatry at the Maryland School of Medicine. The Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene participates in the center's activities as a collaborating organization. phone 410-955-0436. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Electronic Policy Network Hot bot directory of Mental Health Policy and Advocacy Contains links to a number of good sites. Yahoo's directory of Mental Health, Policy and Law, contains very little. Health at athealth.com Connecting Mental Health Resources, links to quite alot. Center for Mental Health Services' Knowledge Exchange Network pages of resources and links on mental health. Knowledge Exchange Network Consumer Mental Health Info Contains federal pamphlets among a wide variety of other things. CMHS Managed Care Bibliography Where to Turn from CMH Consumer Affairs Bulletin, Where to Turn. Guide to all sorts of resources. Publications listing LInks to alot of stuff on managed care Health Administration Responsibility Project (HARM) This site was recommended to me as a good resource on ERISA, the ERISA preemption, its status and its problems. They have a couple of excellent explanations of ERISA and its preemptions. National Association of Insurance Commissioners They are supposed to have a White Paper on ERISA and its preemptions. I couldn't find it, but they do have: Testimony of George Reider, Connecticut state insurance commissioner, before the Special Committee on Health Insurance, 4/21/1999. Discusses ERISA, its exemptions, and what court cases have done with it. testimony of National Coordinating committee for Multiemployer Health Plans, at 5/6/99 House health care hearing discusses Taft-Harley funds", joint labor-management, ERISA preemptions. Proposed regulations on an aspect of ERISA multiemployer health plans, discusses all of them and their parts of ERISA. National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy Consumer Guides to Getting and Keeping Health Insurance: state by state. Georgetown University Institute for Health Care Research and Policy Contact Kay DeKupier at dekupiek@gunet.georgetown.edu. Hit or Miss: How Federal Managed Care Affects You Questions and Answers: Recent Changes in Health Care Law Consumer Sources of Information on Managed Care Manged CAre Cetnral: What Consumers NEed to Know: Choosing a health plan Families USA: Legislative Action Center Health Advocate's Guide to the Internet Benton Foundation Resources Networking for Better Care APA facts on mental health insurance coverage PUblic Policy Advocacy information, APA National Commission on Quality Assurance accredits health insurance companies and HMO's. Agency for Health Care Research and Policy, in Health and Human Services President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry transcript of meeting of the President's Commission, Sept 10, 1997, in Chicago. Contains a statement by Phyllis C. Borzi about ERISA that is cited as a resource on the subject. Also an attachment by Asst Sec of Labor Olena Berg. Ordering info and on-line link (hoagyville format) of Institute of Medicine's report on "Managing Managed Care: Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health", 1997. Supposed to have recommended that the Federal government monitor quality of managed behavioral care plans. Case Studies: Guide to Implementation of Parity for Mental Illness" or "Guide to Implementing Parity for Mental Illness" my abbreviations aren't clear.) This guide by NAMI for employers to implement parity contains information on the plans of three of the companies NAMI awarded. Patients' Bill of Rights: A health Spoltight Report: Online Newshour (PBS) Yahoo coverage of Patients' Bill of Rights Yahoo daily news: Clinton Seeks Strong Patients' Rights Law from Congress Center of Responsive Politics: Managed Care: The Issue" Policy.com Issue of the WEek: Can managed care be managed? Business Week online: Daily briefing: HMO Executives Debate how to heal their image and industry Managed CAre and Reform legislation in 105th Congress: FAct Sheet