Health Care Reform and Mental Health: Stakeholder Perspectives and Strategies
Co-Chairs: Kavita Patel, Executive Office of the President; Kenneth Wells, University of California, Los Angeles
Panelists: Dominic Hodgkin, Brandeis University; Haiden Huskamp, Harvard Medical School; Felicia Jones, Healthy African American Families; Benjamin Miller, University of Colorado, Denver School of Medicine

Roundtable: This panel will review the experiences of different types of health care stakeholders in addressing mental health services as part of possible health care reform. The stakeholders will include health consumer advocates helping to shape expanded access in Massachusetts, developers of a medical home concept for mental health, a community representative from South Los Angeles, and an academic health policy researcher active in mental health parity and health care reform, as well as the moderators representing academic and policy perspectives. The panelists will discuss the requirements and challenges in meeting mental health needs in the current system and economy, and lessons learned from current health care reform debates and health services research.

4:45 p.m.–6:15 p.m.

Key Issues in the Delivery of Substance Abuse Services
Chair: Tami Mark, Thomson Reuters
Panelists: Asaf Bitton, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Changes in Addressing Tobacco Use by U.S. Physicians at Ambulatory Visits, 2005-2007

Robin Clark, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Medicaid Funded Treatment for Opioid Addiction Treatment: Should Buprenorphine be Rationed?

Deborah Gurewich, Brandeis University
Coordinating Primary Care and Substance Abuse Treatment Services

Tami Mark, Thomson Reuters
Characteristics and Costs Outcomes of Insured Patients Treated with Extended-Release Naltrexone or Oral Alcohol Dependence Medications

Cindy Parks Thomas, Brandeis University
Measuring Performance in Use of Pharmacotherapy for Substance Use Disorders in Three Different Health Systems

8:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.

Service Use and Outcomes of Care for Vulnerable Populations with Behavioral Health Problems
Chair: Nancy Hanrahan, University of Pennsylvania
Panelists: Jennifer Humensky, Department of Veterans Affairs, Hines and University of Illinois Chicago
Are Returning Veterans with Alcohol and Drug Dependency Participating in Reintegration Programs?

Su Liu, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Health Care and Employment Experiences of Medicaid Buy-In Participants with Psychiatric Disabilities

Tami Mark, Thomson Reuters
Revisiting the De Facto U.S. Mental Health Services System

Eve Moscicki, American Institute for Research and Education
Gaps in Continuity of Care: Homelessness and Incarceration among Medicaid Psychiatric Patients

Paul Pfeiffer, University of Michigan Health System
Efficacy of Peer Support Interventions for Depression: A Meta-Analysis

Susmita Pati, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Child Medicaid Enrollment Trends: Comparison Across 50 States

9:45 a.m.–11:15 a.m.

Impact of Early Intervention Programs for People with Severe Mental Illness and Other Behavioral Health Conditions on Health, Employment, and Progression to Disability: Evidence from the Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment
Chair: Henry Ireys, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Panelists: Thomas Bohman, University of Texas at Austin
Impact of Enhanced Health Benefits on Use of Medications among Low-Income, Uninsured Working Adults with Behavioral Health Conditions

Boyd Gilman, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Overview and Lessons on the Design and Implementation of Early Intervention Programs for Individuals with Potentially Disabling Mental Health Conditions

Gilbert Gimm, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Impact of Early Intervention Programs for Persons with Mental Health Conditions: Evidence from the National DMIE Evaluation

Karen Linkins, The Lewin Group
Health Insurance Access, Employment Supports, and the Disability Trajectory: Lessons from Minnesota’s Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment

11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

New Findings in Children's Mental Health Services
Chair: Frances Lynch, Kaiser Permanente
Panelists: Janet Cummings, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Mental Health Service Use Among Adolescents with Major Depression

Stacie Dusetzina, Harvard Medical School
Bipolar Spectrum Disorders in Commercially Insured Children: Prevalence of Diagnoses and Treatments Received

Neil Jordan, Northwestern University
Risk Adjusting Residential Treatment Outcomes with Clinical Factors

Jane Kogan, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Patterns of Care Following ADHD Treatment Initiation