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[Agency] AHRQ [Project Title] Accelerating Utilization of CE Findings in Medicaid Mental Health [Institution] Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick [Amount] $0 [Summary] State Medicaid programs play a central role in the provision of mental health services in the U.S., particularly for lower-income youth and adults with severe mental illness, whose mental health treatment is often sub- optimal and varies widely, often without apparent clinical rationale. Building on an existing network partnership, the Network for Evidence Based Treatment (NET) will bring together seven state Medicaid programs accounting for 33% of Medicaid enrollment nationally, together with experts from the Rutgers-Columbia mental health CERTs and other partners, into a consortium that will implement an innovative, multi-component initiative to increase the utilization of evidence-based clinical and delivery system practices in the provision of mental health treatment for beneficiaries of state Medicaid programs. We will put into place in collaborating states an integrated system of quality improvement tools including baseline and follow-up state profiles of use to identify and track variation in treatment patterns; implementation and systematic use of a set of quality metrics and a system of provider feedback utilizing the metrics; and development of a multi-stakeholder quality collaborative, a state quality improvement plan, and a continuous quality improvement process in each state. Results will be evaluated and disseminated nationally; the potential impact is extremely large given the large number of beneficiaries affected. [Completion/ Closing Date] 10/02/2010 [Link] link [Category] 
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