Advancing Public Policies for People with Mental Illness, Chemical Dependency or Developmental Disabilities
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The SAMHSA Recovery Month Toolkit is Here!
Get a jumpstart on your September 2014 event planning with the newly launched Recovery Month Toolkit. This year's toolkit, which celebrates the 25th anniversary of Recovery Month, highlights the theme "Join the Voices for Recovery: Speak Up, Reach Out."
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SAMHSA: Crisis Response Systems
Tuesday July 15, 2:00-3:30pm Innovative State and Local Crisis Response Systems
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JULY: CLMHD/OMH/DOH
Health Home Call July 17th 11:00-12:00 TBD Dev. Disabilites Comm July 21st 11:00-12:00 GTM Call in CLMHD Directors' Meeting July 22nd 10:30-Noon GTM Call in Executive Committee 12:30-2:00 GTM Call in Fiscal Officers Workgroup July 29th 9:00-10:00 GTM Call in
AUGUST:
CLMHD/OMH/DOH Conference Call
August
21st 10:00-11:00 Details to follow Fiscal Officers' Workgroup
Conference Call August 26th 9:00-10:00 Details to follow Contact CLMHD for all call in information, 518.462.9422
SAVE THE DATE:
CLMHD Fall Full
Membership Meeting
September 22-23, 2014
Lake Placid Crowne PlazaCLMHD Members: Register Here
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CLMHD CFR DIALOG
Friday, July 25th 11:00am - 12:00pm
An introduction to the LGU County Fiscal Dashboards recently distributed by CLMHD including an overview of CFR and Medicaid cost data.
REGISTER NOW
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AG Settles with Emblem Over Timothy Law Violations
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says that EmblemHealth had violated the state's Timothy's Law mental-health parity regulations marks his second investigation involving behavioral-health subcontractor ValueOptions. The AG's Health Care Bureau said that going back to at least 2011, ValueOptions issued 64% more denials of coverage in behavioral-health cases than in medical cases.
While ValueOptions is the subcontractor, EmblemHealth, of course, bears full responsibility and agreed to pay a $1.2 million civil penalty and take remedial action. EmblemHealth may take a bigger financial hit after the denied mental-health and substance-abuse treatment claims undergo an independent review. The AG estimates that the insurer many be on the hook for about $31 million to cover those claims.
Earlier this year, the AG stuck a similar settlement with MVP Health Care that required the Schenectady-based insurer to reform its behavioral health claims review process and pay a fine-again, with ValueOptions as the subcontractor.
Read more.
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New York Gets $58 Million to Lower Health Costs
The New York awards were announced by the Secretary for Health and Human Services, part of $360 million that was given to 39 projects spanning 27 states and the District of Columbia. The full list of awards and projects can be seen here.
New York health providers are getting a big assist from the federal government as they test new ways to deliver care at lower costs.
Seven New York health programs including the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation, Mount Sinai and Montefiore, were awarded more than $58 million through the Health Innovation Care Awards program, part of the Affordable Care Act.
SPOTLIGHT: The Montefiore Medical Center project will test implementation of the Bronx Behavioral Health Integration Project (B-HIP), which aims to improve the health of Bronx residents through two interrelated mechanisms, first by engaging patients with serious behavioral health needs and secondly by screening for, identifying and addressing behavioral health co-morbidities in a Collaborative Care Management (CCM) model.
The target population includes Medicare, Medicaid beneficiaries and persons eligible for both programs. As part of routine primary care, patients of all ages will be screened for behavioral health conditions using validated instruments. Those with behavioral health needs will be managed by an CCM team of a primary care physician, psychiatrist, social worker or psychologist and care manager that supports the primary care team by providing screening, assessments, treatment and follow-up care with measurement-based tracking, stepped care algorithms and self-management and behavioral action technique
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'Bleak picture' for mentally ill: 80% are jobless
 Eighty percent of people with mental illness are unemployed, a statistic that says more about the lack of support for this group of people than it does about the economy, according to a new study.
About 60% of people with mental illness want to work. And two-thirds can successfully hold down a job, if they're given appropriate support, the report says. Yet fewer than 2% of people in the public mental health system receive this help, a cost-effective program called supported employment, which has been studied in 20 high-quality clinical trials over the past 25 years. Read more.
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