Availability and usability of behavioral health organization encounter data in MAX 2009.

Objective: To assess the availability, completeness, and quality of the Behavioral Health Organization (BHO) encounter data in MAX 2009.

Data Source: The Medicaid Analytic Extract (MAX) 2009.

Methods: We compared metrics of reporting completeness and quality for BHOs to similar metrics for six states that primarily cover MH and SA services on a FFS basis.