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Psychiatric Practice & Managed Care
Published Online: 1 August 2008

Managed Behavioral Health Plans 2008

Publication: Psychiatric News
Volume 43, Number 15
https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.43.15.0026a
The last time Psychiatric Practice and Managed Care published a list of the 10 largest managed behavioral health care organizations was in August 2001. At that time the alphabetical list looked like this:
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APS Healthcare
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CIGNA Behavioral Health
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First Health Service
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Integra, Inc.
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Magellan Behavioral Health
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MHN
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Oxford Health Plans
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PacifiCare Behavioral Health
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United Behavioral Health
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ValueOptions
In March the newsletter Psychotherapy Finances published a list of the top 20 managed behavioral health plans based on lives covered. Half of the plans listed seven years ago have disappeared altogether. OptumHealth Behavioral Solutions, which wasn't even on the 2001 list, is now the largest plan, reportedly covering 43 million lives. (Optum appears to be a behavioral health program offered as part of United HealthCare.)
Here's the entire list in alphabetical order with the number of lives covered as reported by Psychotherapy Finances:
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Aetna Behavioral Health (18 million)
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APS Healthcare (20 million)
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Ceridian (7 million)
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CIGNA Behavioral Health (19 million)
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ComPsych (25.8 million)
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Magellan Behavioral Health Services (42.4 million)
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MHN (11 million)
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OptumHealth Behavioral Solutions (43 million)
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ValueOptions (23 million)
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WellPoint Behavioral Health (18 million)
A couple of caveats about the new list: Some of these companies may offer only employee assistance programs (commonly referred to as EAPs) or work life products rather than full behavioral health care, and the information on the number of lives covered in all likelihood comes from the companies' marketing departments.

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