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Mental Health Consumer Protection Manual: A Guide to Solving Problems with Insurance and Managed Care, (Editor) National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, Inc., Commack, NY, February, 1999.
By Ivan Miller. E-mail: IvanJM@aol.com
Cost: First copy — $12.00, Additional copies —$6.00 each.
A consumer and consumer advocate's manual for dealing with managed care problems. The strategies are useful for physical health as well as mental health.
The Time has Come to Choose the Replacement for Managed Health Care. Coalition
Report January, 1999.
By Ivan Miller. E-mail: IvanJM@aol.com
Cost: Free and may be photocopied
A brief article about the possibilities for replacing managed care with a pro-patient, pro-quality health care system.
Eleven unethical managed care practices every patient should know about. Coalition Report, August 1998.
By Ivan Miller. E-mail: IvanJM@aol.com
Cost: Free and may be photocopied
A brief article about obvious unethical managed care practices and the erroneous arguments that managed care uses to justify these unethical practices.
End secret treatment guidelines. American Psychological Association Monitor, (August, 1997).
By Ivan Miller. E-mail: IvanJM@aol.com
Cost: Free
An editorial about managed care's secret manipulation of personal health care through the use of proprietary treatment guidelines.
Beware of a Trojan Horse from managed care: Dangerous provisions in parity legislation. (1997). The Independent Practitioner, 17(3), 138-142.
Cost: $2.00
An article about how parity legislation was written by managed care as a method of endorsing managed care while actually reducing the quality and quantity of mental health services.
The Grinch from Managed Care Stole Parity, Unpublished.
Cost: $2.00
An explanation about how the Parity Legislation that appears to be a victory for mental health advocates is actually a loss due to the invisible rationing of managed care.
The New Face of Managed Care in Integrated Delivery Systems.
(1998). The Colorado Psychological Association Bulletin, Vol. 31 (4),
April, p. 5-6, 13.
By Ivan Miller. E-mail: IvanJM@aol.com
Cost: $2.00
Integrated Delivery Systems have been proposed as a way to increase the income of psychologists, but an examination of these financial schemes indicates that the increase in income only comes from deceiving patients.
The following three articles were published as a set in one issue
of the journal:
Cost: $4.00 each or $8.00 for the set of three:
Time-limited brief therapy has gone too far: The result is invisible rationing. (1996) Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 27(6), 567-576.
By Ivan Miller. E-mail: IvanJM@aol.com
Some "short-term therapy values" are a formula for invisible rationing. (1996) Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 27(6), 577-582.
By Ivan Miller. E-mail: IvanJM@aol.com
Ethical and liability issues concerning invisible rationing. (1996) Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 27(6), 583-587.
By Ivan Miller. E-mail: IvanJM@aol.com
Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA): Who is the watchdog's master? (1996). The Independent Practitioner, Vol. 16(3), 133-137.
By Ivan Miller. E-mail: IvanJM@aol.com
Cost: $2.00
Article that criticizes NCQA as a watchdog and exposes that it is actually part of the promotion of the managed care industry.
Unpublished letter of complaint to the Department of Justice regarding how
the managed care industry is violating the spirit of the antitrust laws
through organizations such as the NCQA, proprietary best practice guidelines,
and joint conferences; and a follow up letter to the Department of Justice
further outlining the antitrust issues.
Cost: $8.00
Managed care is harmful to outpatient mental health services: A call for accountability, (1996) Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 27(4), 349-363.
By Ivan Miller. E-mail: IvanJM@aol.com
Cost: $4.00
Article exposes how managed care has been harmful to the quantity and quality of mental health services.
How do you stop managed care? The same way you eat an elephant. Coalition Report, National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, Inc. December 1995, and Bulletin, Colorado Psychological Association, 28(12), December, 1995.
By Ivan Miller. E-mail: IvanJM@aol.com
Cost: Free
What Managed Care Is Doing To Outpatient Mental Health: A Look Behind the Veil of Secrecy, Boulder Psychotherapists' Press, Inc., Boulder, 1994.
By Ivan Miller. E-mail: IvanJM@aol.com
Cost: 1 copy $4.70
2-5 copies $4.30
6-10 copies $3.90
11 + copies $3.50
Book for lay person that exposes how managed care has been harmful to the quantity and quality of mental health services.
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