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Positioning for the New York State Managed Care Transition
…encouraging a wellness orientation among your clients? Follow a “charge” through the organization. Are you comfortable that your revenue cycle management is efficient and compliant? Meet with a few major…
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OMH’s Mental Health Services Restructuring: A Commentary
…payers, many adults and children will be deprived of care by community-based clinics that cannot afford to treat underpaying clients. In many communities, there are no alternatives to community-based clinics,…
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NYS OMH Engaged in Mental Health Services Restructuring
…mental health hospitalization while the vast majority of people with mental illnesses need outpatient services; Reimbursement for mental health services is complex and inequitable. “Short term” Medicaid initiatives like “Comprehensive…
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Points to Consider During the COVID-19 Pandemic That Are Impacting the SUD Community
…fee for service providers who can’t see clients residential programs to be funded, staffed and equipped like the hospital units they are now called to be mobile testing that can…
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Behavioral Health News Spotlight on Excellence – An Interview with Joseph Wilson, Peer Specialist with Services for the UnderServed
…just making him feel comfortable and staying consistent, we were able to (after COVID) have him come into the clinic. And we started working on some ways to overcome those…
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The Behavioral Health Community Today: Change, Challenge and Opportunity
…lower costs. In doing so, the community-based behavioral health sector has been charged with undergoing several system transformations: moving from fee-for-service to managed care, integrating behavioral health care with physical…
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Permanent Supportive Housing: The State of the Research
…Other investigators offered a qualified endorsement of these findings through a comprehensive review and meta-analysis of the research literature, but they suggest more rigorous examinations are needed to bolster the…
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New York State Expands Services to Combat Addiction and Address the Opioid Epidemic
…are prohibited from receiving fees. By taking these additional steps to eliminate this dangerous conflict of interest, we are making sure that patients’ needs come first and that people with…
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The New Normal: How We Learned to Love and Understand Data
…This value-based payment formula moves away from the more traditional fee-for-service models toward more financially risk-based arrangements. Outcome data will help transform agencies from a system in which the volume…
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Preparing the New Behavioral Health Workforce
…and Best Practices: Clients with mental health and substance use challenges have complex needs, both behavioral health and often, also co-morbid medical conditions, all of which are deeply affected by…
