@article{ref1,
title="Access to medicaid providers: availability of mental health services for children and adolescents in child welfare in Louisiana",
journal="Journal of public child welfare",
year="2020",
author="Scheeringa, Michael S. and Singer, Alyssa M. and Mai, Thao Anh and Miron, Devi",
volume="14",
number="2",
pages="161-173",
abstract="The purpose of the study was to determine the level of access that youths in child welfare have to mental health providers in a single state. Mystery shoppers called every provider publicly advertised in Medicaid managed care organization networks. <br><br>RESULTS showed that 25.4% of the advertised network was able to schedule a new appointment for a child in Department of Children and Family Services guardianship. There were 9.7 accessible providers of any discipline (MD, PhD, or licensed masters-level clinician) per 10,000 Medicaid-enrolled youths in the population. The level of access to MDs was 4.1 times lower than the nationally recommended level.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1554-8732",
doi="10.1080/15548732.2018.1537904",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15548732.2018.1537904"
}