Mental Health Care Administration

Mental Health Care Administration and Payment Plan Name Institution Mental Health Care Administration and Payment Plan Access to mental health care is worse than any other category of healthcare in the United States. Considering many challenges facing mental healthcare delivery including financing and practitioners, mental health institutions require serious interventions that require the involvement of all the stakeholders and most importantly the federal government. Other challenges include limited insurance cover and high cost of mental healthcare services (Olfson Marcus, 2011). Consequently, it is not easy for these institutions to maintain their financial status through sustained growth before the challenges faced are addressed. The mental health care services available in the United States include counseling, psychiatric services, peer supports, medication management, therapy, substance abuse treatment and licensed clinical social work services. These services can be accessed through inpatient and outpatient services, physicians services, clinics, community healthcare, inpatient psychiatric hospital for those under 21 and prescriptions drugs (Atdjian Vega, 2010) . These services comprehensively cover all the areas of mental health and with proper financing and adequate mental healthcare practitioners, the services would be adequate to address all the mental healthcare needs. The main challenge is the use of public resources for