http://bbhaz.disqus.com/enWed, 28 Jan 2009 06:21:11 -0000http://betterbehavioralhealthaz.com/post/61337440#comment-5614492<p>We have got to get the profit motive out of the equation. The two largest counties in Washington state took the equivalant of Magellan/RBHA over, assigned clusters of zip codes and have community mental health centers provide services directly to private, non-profit agencies such as Terros, Toby House, Southwest Behavioral. There is no cash-catching middleman involved, funding comes right from the state to the providers of services. We have created bloated, money-gobbling monster, but it's fixable. End of argument.</p>cdubyaWed, 28 Jan 2009 06:21:11 -0000http://betterbehavioralhealthaz.com/post/61337440#comment-4054061<p>I fully agree with you about the outlandish amount of paperwork Magellan requires. My ISP stipulates three services (none of which I ever obtained). When I was with Value Options, my ISP was three pages long, one page for each requested service. When I finally received my ISP from Magellan (same three services), I was appalled to see that it was 22 pages long. In trying to read the document, I saw a tremendous amount of redundancy. Hasn't Magellan ever heard of trying to save a tree? Their paperwork from one site would take out an entire forest.</p>DeborahFri, 28 Nov 2008 16:04:06 -0000