Kaiser Health News (3/30, Galewitz) reported that “after more than 2,000 Missouri children diagnosed with mental illness were shifted from traditional Medicaid into three for-profit managed-care companies,” there was “a doubling in the percentage who had thoughts of suicide or attempted suicide,” according to a report from the Missouri Hospital Association. The report also found that “the average length of stay for these children in psychiatric hospitals dropped from 10 days to seven following the Medicaid change in May 2017.”
Related Links:
— “Suicide risk great after Missouri Medicaid kids shifted to managed care, hospitals say, “Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News, March 30, 2019