County-Level Medicaid Mental Health Service Utilization Profiles

2006-2016 service years of Medicaid-funded mental health service utilization data for New York State counties. The dataset tracks recipient counts, paid claims, and service units across age groups and rate code categories. It is published by data.ny.gov and was last updated in March 2020.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in Recipient Count By County and Paid Claim Total over Service Year to identify counties with increasing or decreasing mental health service utilization.
• Compare Units Total and Count Of Recipients By Rate Code Group And County across different OMH Region Label areas to assess regional program delivery.
• Model the relationship between Age Group and specific Rate Code Group usage to understand service needs across different demographics.
• Examine the correlation between Paid Claim Total and Units Total per county to study the cost efficiency of service delivery.

Strengths

• 11-year time series from 2006 to 2016 enabling longitudinal analysis.
• Data is disaggregated by County Label and Age Group for granular spatial and demographic analysis.
• Includes multiple quantitative metrics: Recipient Count By County, Units Total, and Paid Claim Total.

Limitations

• Sample size (row count) is unknown, limiting assessment of statistical power.
• Excludes Medicaid Managed Care data, providing an incomplete picture of all Medicaid-funded services.
• Data freshness is limited with the last update in March 2020.

Provenance

Source

data.ny.gov, likely sourced from New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) Medicaid claims.

Collection Method

Aggregated from Medicaid service claims data, refreshed monthly.

Time Range

2006 to 2016.

Freshness

Updated monthly during active collection; last known update was March 2020.

Geography

New York State, broken down by county.