Rodríguez Gabriela M, Pederson Casey A, Garcia Dainelys, Schwartz Katherine, Brown Steven A, Aalsma Matthew C
Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States.
Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States.
Front Health Serv. 2024 Feb 5;4:1298592. doi: 10.3389/frhs.2024.1298592. eCollection 2024.
Rates of youth behavioral health concerns have been steadily rising. Administrative data can be used to study behavioral health service utilization among youth, but current methods that rely on identifying an associated behavioral health diagnosis or provider specialty are limited. We reviewed all procedure codes billed to Medicaid for youth in one U.S. county over a 10-year period. We identified 158 outpatient behavioral health procedure codes and classified them according to service type. This classification system can be used by health services researchers to better characterize youth behavioral health service utilization.
青少年行为健康问题的发生率一直在稳步上升。行政数据可用于研究青少年的行为健康服务利用情况，但目前依赖识别相关行为健康诊断或提供者专业的方法存在局限性。我们回顾了美国一个县10年间向医疗补助计划（Medicaid）申报的所有程序代码。我们识别出158个门诊行为健康程序代码，并根据服务类型对其进行了分类。卫生服务研究人员可以使用这个分类系统来更好地描述青少年行为健康服务的利用情况。
