December 2013

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Letters of Collaboration/Termination

Interpreter at Mandela memorial a fake, group says

In this case, the pictures apparently weren't worth a single word.

The sign language interpreter at Tuesday's memorial service in Johannesburg for Nelson Mandela may have appeared to have been translating spoken words into gestures during the four hours he appeared on television screens around the world, but he was a fake, observers said Wednesday.

"The so-called 'interpreter' ... at FNB stadium has been dubbed the 'fake interpreter' and the deaf community is in outrage," said Bruno Druchen, national director of the Deaf Federation of South Africa (DeafSA), in a statement.

9 things everyone should know about the drug Molly

The drug called Molly  isn't what most of its users think it is. If you Google "Molly," many articles say the drug is "pure" MDMA, the active ingredient in Ecstasy.

Users often talk about the "purity" of taking Molly, as if it's somehow better; after all, MDMA was originally developed as a medication to treat depression. But today's Molly is most often not MDMA -- in the last few years, the drug has become a toxic mixture of lab-created chemicals, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

ADHD rises to 11% of kids

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December 12

Drug Utilization Review Board Meeting

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OHCA Board Meeting

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December 13 – 14

Case Mgmt Training

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A new process has been added for customers that are being seen at two agencies at the same time. This process is called Letters of Collaboration/Termination. If a customer already has an open level PA at another agency, when your agency submits a level PA, the PA will be put on pended status. At this time, the agency must determine whether a collaboration or termination is needed. The different options available for this process are letters of termination, collaboration, courtesy terminations, and contests of prior terminations.

Letters of Termination are signed agreements that state the customer only wants to receive services from your agency. To be able to do a letter of termination, the provider must have at least submitted one CDC and received a response that the customer is being served at another agency.

Letters of Collaboration are agreements between two agencies and the customer. The agreement details the amount of the monthly cap that each provider is going to get. The collaboration letter is signed by both clinicians and the customers, but does not need to be sent to ODMHSAS.

Courtesy Terminations are a way for a provider to end their PA the day they submit it. This process is also done by the provider submitting a discharge. This process was designed for providers to have an easy alternative to ending their PA if there is another provider trying to submit a PA for their prior customer.

Contest Terminations are a process to allow providers to contest a prior termination for one of their customers. Once a Contest has been submitted a response will tell the provider to send an email to the help desk detailing the information.

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The number of children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) continues to climb, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

There has been a 42% increase in the number of reported cases of ADHD since 2003, according to a CDC-led study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.