Providers and consumers of behavioral health services hailed the passage of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) in 2008 and its full application to private insurance through the Affordable Care Act. While parity requirements are now in place, there is much debate about … Read More
Issue Briefs
Motivational Interviewing: Assessing Readiness for Change in a Primary Care Setting
Implementing Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) Across Agency Settings: A TIC checklist
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Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) is a proactive approach to reduce potentially traumatic interactions across all stages of the individual’s treatment in various practice settings. Whether at a behavioral health agency, a primary care clinic, an integrated care practice center, or a residential facility, TIC must … Read More
Good News! Deadline for Spending HCBS Start-up Funds Extended to End of 2016!
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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
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“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
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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?
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“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
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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
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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)
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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