A treatment-team model of managed mental health care.

Many models of managed care have been criticized as inflexible and intrusive, including those in which decisions about level of care are made by third-party reviewers, inhouse staff, or other clinicians not involved in the patient's treatment. The treatment-team model of managed care, which has been implemented in the emergency psychiatric service of a midsized, non-profit community hospital in a metropolitan area, addresses these criticisms