MARKETS FOR RESIDENTIAL/DAY TREATMENT PROGRAMS

住宿和日间治疗计划为患有严重疾病的儿童提供服务 人类服务的几个部分的情绪障碍(SED) 扇区。这些设置在教育和心理方面最为常见 卫生部门。这里提出的研究将深入研究 儿童住院和日间治疗方案的经济学 塞德。我们将使用来自NIMH和 教育部(DOE)全面描述了这一增长 精神健康服务体系的一部分。我们将使用这些数据来 估算成本函数模型。成本函数将尝试采用 说明质量的替代措施并使用间接估计法 来说明质量问题。这些分析的结果将为政策提供信息 与这类设施的管理或预算有关的。模型 对支付系统在数量和数量方面激励措施的反应 将具体说明和估计治疗的强度。网络的影响 关于护理强度和产出组合的付款方法的类型和组合 将是这项工作的重点。这一分析的结果将使 一是追溯采取各种报销方式的后果。 最后，关于改进未来数据收集的建议可能会出现 从这项研究中。

Residential and Day Treatment Programs service children with Severe Emotional Disturbances (SED) in several parts of the human services sector. These settings are most common in the education and mental health sectors. The research proposed here will intensively study the economics of residential and day treatment programs for children with SED. We will make use of several unique data sets from NIMH and the Department of Education (DOE) to comprehensively describe this growing portion of the mental health services system. We will use the data to estimate cost function models. The cost function will attempt to take account of proxy measures for quality and use indirect estimation methods to account for quality. The results of these analyses will inform policy related to the regulation or budgeting of such facilities. Models of responses to payment system incentives with respect to volume and intensity of treatment will be specified and estimated. The impact of type and mix of payment method on intensity of care and mix of outputs will be a focus of this work. The results from this analysis will enable one to trace the consequences of adopting various reimbursement methods. Finally, proposals for improved future data collection will likely emerge from this study.