Posted Mar. 3, 2016 at 2:01 AM
The system for delivering behavioral health services in Rhode Island is seriously ill. Actually, one could describe it as being on life support. If it is to survive, intensive care is required.
Last year, the Raimondo administration initiated an ambitious cost-saving project, entitled "Reinventing Medicaid." Advocates and consumers in the world of behavioral health care often refer to this plan as "Decimating Medicaid."
The new Reinventing Medicaid effort has been officially described as setting out to curb costs while improving the quality of health care for the state’s neediest. It is time to stop describing these cuts as improving care. It’s just not the case.
The Truven Report, a study commissioned by the state, found that from 2007 to 2014, state funding for behavioral health care was cut by $30 million.
Mental Health America recently ranked all the states in quality of and access to services. In the overall ranking, Rhode Island ranked number 48 out of all the states, nearly the worst. A low overall ranking such as Rhode Island’s indicates “higher prevalence of mental illness and lower rates on access to care.”
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