BHO MH Continuity of Care: 2010-2014

The Behavioral Health Organization (BHO) initiative oversees the transition to managed care for Medicaid recipients who receive mental health (MH) and substance use disorder (SUD) services in New York State. The metrics emphasize improving rates of timely follow-up treatment post discharge, timely filling of appropriate medication prescriptions post discharge, and reducing rates of readmission.The BHO Continuity of Care dataset is designed to assess the frequency with which individuals receive outpatient mental health treatment for a mental health or substance use disorder within 7 or 30 days of discharge from a mental health inpatient hospitalization.

The year 2015 saw the conclusion of the first phase of the Behavioral Health Organization initiative

(BHO). A new Behavioral Health Managed Care Transition phase II is underway. The data contained in

the BHO metrics span 2010 to 2014, using the 2010 calendar year for a baseline. Earlier in the program

(2011‐2012) the metrics were calculated quarterly and on a year‐to‐date basis, later in (2013‐2014),

New York State Office of Mental Health opted for semi‐annual and year‐to‐date aggregations.

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"ny-gov/bho-mh-continuity-of-care-20102014-jzue-ib4p\".\"bho_mh_continuity_of_care_20102014\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.