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In a year-long pilot test with 65 residents, the program reduced hospital admissions and readmissions, had no bounce backs to nursing homes, decreased falls, improved nutritional status, and increased levels of physical activity.

The policies include mandatory screening for both disorders using validated tools, a learning collaborative and evaluations to promote quality improvement, and financial incentives to clinics achieving various service benchmarks. The department also offers training to help providers with various issues related to these policies.

"unless states carefully regulate the plans that compete in the exchanges and the benefits that they offer, people with mental illness, who typically have higher health care costs, are at risk of receiving poorer quality care."

From a sample of Florida patients (abstract)