Behavioral Health Services

5. A corporate entity to which a health plan may outsource the management of mental health services for its subscribers.
7. Surgical severance of nerve fibers of the brain by
9. a movement where severely mentally ill patients previously confined to large state or county psychiatric hospitals were discharged to community boarding or nursing homes.
12. Emotional and social well-being, including one's psychological resources for dealing with the day-to-day problems of life.
13. The total number of years of life lost to illness, disability, or premature death within a given population.
14. Mental illness resulting in profound functional impairment which substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities.
15. Emotional and social well-being, including one's psychological resources for dealing with the day-to-day problems of life.

1. An alarm reaction that prepares one physiologically for sudden action.
2. A collective term for all diagnosable mental disorders.
3. when two disorders or illnesses occur in the same person, simultaneously, or one after another
4. Refers to reimbursement for psychiatric services on bases that are not on par with reimbursement for nopsychiatric illnesses.
6. Health conditions characterized by alterations in thinking, mood, or behavior (or some combination thereof) associated with distress and/or impaired functioning.
8. The complex physiological responses resulting from exposure to stressors.
10. Limitations or restrictions of covered insurance benefits which, though not numerically expressed, otherwise limit the scope or duration of benefits for treatment. In assuring parity of mental health with medical/surgical benefits, insurance plans must apply NQLs in a comparable and no more stringent manner to mental health as compared and medical/surgical benefits.
11. A method of treatment for mental disorders involving the administration of electric current to the scalp to induce convulsions and unconsciousness.