Turn and Face the Change: Children’s Medicaid Redesign

• By: Ryan Logan, LMSW WellLife Network
• October 1st, 2018
• care coordination, children's mental health, early intervention, family support services, home and community-based services, Medicaid redesign, system transformation, value-based care
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Change is inevitable. Change has and will always be a part of life, but it seems that the last couple of decades have brought about an unprecedented rate and scale of change in our society. Technology, of course, can be identified as a driving factor and has radically transformed every aspect of...

Helping the Most Vulnerable Among Vulnerable Populations

• By: Deidre Summers ICL’s HCBS Services
• July 1st, 2017
• care coordination, home and community-based services, hospital readmission reduction, Medicaid high utilizers, mental health services, outpatient treatment engagement, person-centered care, therapeutic relationship
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Our client, LM felt guilty when she wasn’t able to make it to her weekly counseling session. She felt like the therapist she was working with became disappointed with her and that added guilt made her not motivated to go to the next counseling session as well. The therapist wasn’t necessarily...

Supporting Youths in Their Recovery Journey to Adulthood

• By: Andrea Smyth David Rossetti Leonardo I. Rodriguez
• January 1st, 2017
• care coordination, children’s behavioral health, home and community-based services, Medicaid redesign, service integration, transition age youth, transition to adulthood, youth mental health services
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The New York State children’s behavioral health community is in the last stages of redesigning the children’s behavioral health Medicaid benefits. Once approved by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS), the new benefits will represent the most significant expansion of children’s...