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B -- PILOT STUDY OF MANAGED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE EARLY WARNING SYSTEM SOL 98M002747 POC Jeffrey E. DeSanto, Contracting Officer (301) 443-6550 WEB: Program Support Center, Program Support Center. E-MAIL: Program Support Center, jdesanto@psc.dhhs.gov. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Office of Managed Care (OMC) through the Program Support Center, ADP Acquisitions Branch, has a 17 month requirement to design and pilot test a managed behavioral health care early warning system (EWS) which would allow for the rapid identification of mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) system problems during the transition periods in public managed care (e.g., new program start-up, transition from one vendor to another). The EWS would be designed to identify problems in access to services, processes of care delivery, and, if feasible, short term outcomes by means of inexpensive performance measures that can be easily and reliably collected and monitored by public regulators and purchasers of care. Proposed EWS measures will be pilot tested during the actual implementation of one or more new Medicaid managed behavioral healthcare systems. Medicaid managed care would be the primary, but not exclusive focus of the development and pilot testing of the EWS. HCFA central and regional office staff; State mental health, substance abuse and Medicaid staff; and other key stakeholders will be involved in the development, testing and analysis of the pilot test of the behavioral health EWS. This acquisition is being made utilizing Simplified Acquisition Procedures and is 100% set-aside for small business. See Numbered Note 1. All requests for the Request for Quotation (RFQ) shall be submitted in writing, ATTN: Jeff DeSanto. The RFQ shall be released on or about 15 days from the date of publication of this synopsis. Posted 08/05/98 (W-SN233198). (0217)

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