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    • Clinical Services Delivery
      • Population Health
      • Primary Care Integration
      • Co-Occurring Disorders
      • Telehealth
      • Staff Training
    • Behavioral Health Compliance
      • Mental Health Parity & Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA)
      • Clinical Audit Review & Quality Management Improvements
      • License Acquisition
      • Guidance on Regulatory Requirements for Mental Health & Substance Use Disorder Treatment
      • Case Record Review for Standards of Care
    • Management Consulting
      • Retainer Service
      • Grant Writing
      • Strategic Planning
      • Evaluation and Technical Assistance
      • Operations
      • Program Development
      • Executive Coaching
    • Agency Transformation
      • Managed Care Readiness
      • Value Based Payment Readiness
      • Medicaid Innovation Redesign Services
      • IPA Formation
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Issue Briefs

Good News! Deadline for Spending HCBS Start-up Funds Extended to End of 2016!

Posted on June 30, 2016December 4, 2017 by Susan Liebold

NYS Office of Mental Health (OMH) and Office of Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) have extended the deadline for spending one-time start-up funds for designated HCBS agencies to December 31, 2016. If you have received HCBS start-up funds but haven’t had time to … Read More

Keeping Up With The DSM-V: Critical Changes in the Diagnosis of PTSD

Posted on June 2, 2016December 11, 2017 by Susan Liebold

“identify the trigger to PTSD as exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury or sexual violation. The exposure must result from one or more of the following scenarios, in which the individual: directly experiences the traumatic event; witnesses the traumatic event in person; … Read More

Addressing Addiction for Mental Health Awareness

Posted on May 26, 2016December 11, 2017 by Susan Liebold

From 2001 to 2014, there is a 2.8-fold increase in the total number of National Overdose Deaths from Prescription Drugs. From a 2011 CDC study, the Source of abused prescription painkillers are from friends or relative. A State-by-State analysis of health care cost attributable … Read More

What’s in grandma’s cocktail?

Posted on May 12, 2016December 4, 2017 by Susan Liebold

“The combination of alcohol and medication misuse has been estimated to affect up to 19% of older Americans.” “Approximately 25% of older adults use prescription psychoactive medications that have a potential to be misused and abused.”  “Older adults are more likely to take prescribed … Read More

Medicaid Managed Care Meets the Mental Health Parity Act

Posted on May 5, 2016December 11, 2017 by Susan Liebold

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) estimates that 1 in 5, or about 43 million Americans, have a diagnosable mental disorder. Almost 10 million of these adults, 1 in 25, experience a serious functional impairment. In a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) … Read More

The Impact of Minority Health Disparities on Avoidable Admissions

Posted on April 14, 2016December 11, 2017 by Susan Liebold

System transformations focused on preventing avoidable admissions must address health disparities that continue to exist among minority populations. A paradigm shift from an acute care model to an integrated care model for complex chronic diseases is not sufficient when the systematic barriers to care continue to … Read More

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA)

Posted on March 23, 2016December 4, 2017 by Susan Liebold

Parity implementation is a shared responsibility. Individual providers, provider systems with health plan products, health plans and their managed care vendors that oversee behavioral health benefits, governance entities, and consumers as well as consumer advocates are essential in ensuring access to appropriate levels of … Read More

Interventions for Trauma-Informed Care

Posted on March 15, 2016December 11, 2017 by Susan Liebold

Imagine, after surviving a trauma, you are so impacted that you have trouble breathing. It’s like taking a breath that is shortened and never reaches your lung. It’s stuck somewhere in your throat and your whole body tenses. It’s hard to blink, hard to … Read More

HIV Risk and Prevalence among Minority Women

Posted on March 3, 2016December 4, 2017 by Susan Liebold

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), women account for 20% of new HIV infections in the United States. In 2011, of all women living with HIV, only 45% were receiving care and only 32% were reported to have achieved viral … Read More

Integrated Care and Data Exchange

Posted on February 16, 2016December 11, 2017 by Susan Liebold

The Office for the National Coordinator (ONC) released a fact sheet on the Exchange for Health Care Operations (45 Code of Federal Regulations 164.506 (c) (4)) that clarifies the uses and disclosures of patient information and data exchange between provider sets/Covered Entities (CE). Protected Health Information … Read More

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