Description: Research and Data Analysis is providing analytic support to the Department of Social and Health Services' Washington State Medicaid Integration Project (WMIP) that was developed to examine the potential benefits of providing services in a more integrated fashion to aged and disabled clients who receive medical care, mental health treatment, and long-term care services.
Three sub-projects are currently underway:
- Medicaid Integration Project Detailed administrative records of DSHS services and costs have been compiled for aged and disabled clients in four recent fiscal years. These data will be analyzed to determine what patterns of service use, diagnoses and client characteristics appear to be related to subsequent use of medical, mental health, and long-term care and resulting costs.
- Mental Health Cost Offset Study This study will provide a detailed description of clients who need and those who received mental health services in recent years. In addition, the study will examine the effects of different patterns of mental health treatment on medical care costs.
- Gravely Disabled Project Detailed profiles will be prepared to describe the chemical dependency history, criminal justice involvement, and recent use of DSHS services among clients who are gravely disabled due to drug or alcohol dependency and who are receiving chemical dependency treatment and integrated case management in seven counties through the Gravely Disabled pilot project.
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Contact: David Mancuso Ph.D., Research Supervisor, telephone: (360)902-7557
