Practice Management Insight

April 2009

A report on events affecting Oklahoma providers

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April 21, 2009

2009 Statewide Education Series: ODMHSAS—

Ethics & Cultural Competence w/ Dewayne Moore, Deneka Cain & Robert Blue

Lemley Technology Center

3420 S Memorial Dr.

Tulsa, OK

Contact: 405-522-8300

Fax: 405-522-8320

Event Information

April 21, 2009

Oklahoma Play Therapy w/ Connie O’Brien, M.Ed

Great Plains Tech

4500 SW Lee Blvd

Lawton, OK
Contact: 405-522-8300

Fax: 405-522-8320

Event Information

April 21, 2009

2009 Statewide Education Series: ODMHSAS—Current Drug Trends w/ Mike Sowden

Woodward High Plains Tech Ctr

3921 34th Street

Woodward, OK

Contact: 405-522-8300

Fax: 405-522-8320

Event Information

April 21, 2009

2009 Statewide Education Series: ODMHSAS—Motivational Interviewing w/ Thad Leffingwell, Ph.D.

Eastern OK State College

McAlester, OK

Contact: 405-522-8300

Fax: 405-522-8320

Event Information

April 23-24

SOAR Training

Tulsa Tech Center

Peoria Campus

3850 N Peoria

Tulsa, OK 74106

Contact: Kelly Earles,

405-522-0103

Fax: 405-522-8661

Event Information

April 24, 2009

9th Annual Charles P. Seger

Seminar on Depression—
A Psychology of Action

Founder’s Hall

Schusterman Learning Center

OU-Tulsa Campus, Tulsa, OK

Contact: 918-585-1213

Event Information

April 29

D. Kaminer—The Teen Addiction Severity Index

(T-ASI) Training Workshop

ODMHSAS Training Center

2401 NW 23rd Street, Suite 1F

Oklahoma City, OK

Contact: 405-533-8300

Fax: 405-522-8320

Event Information

Online Registration

April 30

OCARTA 5th Annual

Recovery from Addiction Day

11 a.m.—2 p.m.

State Capitol 2nd Floor Rotunda

Come put a positive face on the voice of recovery.

Guest speakers; free lunch

Contact: 405-848-7555

2009 Grants: Now Accepting Requests for Applications for FY 2009 Funding Opportunities

The Substance Abuse
and Mental Health

Services Administr-

ation (SAMHSA) is

soliciting applications

for fiscal year (FY) 2009 supplements to the State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants for Quality Improvement program and for Project LAUNCH (Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Children’s Health), a grant program designed to promote the physical, emotional, social, cognitive and behavioral health of young children, birth to 8 years of age, in addition to many others. For more information and a list of RFAs, click here.

Interest Grows
in E-Prescribing

By David Raths

As a new set of Medicare e-prescribing standards goes into effect April 1, behavioral healthcare providers’ interest in this technology seems to be at an all-time high. The combination of government incentives and the publicity surrounding the health IT provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has at least put e-prescribing on most providers’ radars. … To spur adoption, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a Medicare incentive program in January. Providers who successfully e-prescribe in 2009 and 2010 are eligible for incentives equal to 2% of their total Medicare payments for the year. The incentive decreases to 1% in 2011 and 2012 and to 0.5% in 2013.

CMS offers a stick as well as a carrot: Prescribers who do not adopt e-prescribing will face reimbursement reductions, beginning at 1% in 2012 and increasing to 2% by 2014. …    Read on

Tune to Recovery Radio

Tune in every Tuesday to AM 890 in Oklahoma City from 9-10:30 a.m. or go to www.ktlr.com to listen to the “Pathways of Recovery Radio” show hosted by OCARTA’S Donna Woods-Bauer and Dr. Robert Grupe; and NAMI OK’s Jinneh Dyson.

This is the only radio show in the state that focuses on the reality of recovery.

Are you getting ready for the single-payer initiative?

April 1 changes were just the first step toward merging OHCA and ODMHSAS into a single authorization and claims payment system.  Target for completion is October 2009.

ThinkHealth already has  DMH Client Data Core

The changes that went into effect April 1 for Medicaid billing were just the first of several changes that will be coming so that the State will be able to optimize its use of federal funds to purchase services.

The next big change is the October inclusion of the DMH Client Data Core into APS’ CareConnection and the electronic billing files.

ThinkHealth members don’t have to worry about this new change because a CDC Wizard has already been built into the system.  All a center has to do is to select the appropriate option to use the CDC Wizard for client information.

Don’t let monthly caps on services cost you money

Being a member of ThinkHealth means having a software system that changes with the state rules — every time, and always for free, to keep you compliant, as quickly and as efficiently as possible. With the changes on April 1,  the state will now start capping Medicaid money on a monthly basis. For a center with different clinicians performing different services while writing different notes simultaneously, this new capped dollar amount for the whole center will be very hard to keep track of. With ThinkHealth, you won’t have to worry about going over your limit, or leaving money on the table.

ThinkHealth Updates:

· The big change was all the Treatment Plan and Billing changes that OHCA and APS introduced for April 1. These changes affected the look and function of the Prior Authorization module.  The main screen, Treatment Plan and Activities and Notes view have both changed to show details for both old and new Treatment Plans.  Also, the Progress Notes screen now has panels to show the cap information so you can have a better idea of the money you have remaining per month.

· Added Pharmacological Management on Substance Abuse treatment plans for Medicaid.

· Joined the Family back together on the Treatment Plan, so you only have to request “Family Psychotherapy Counseling.”  When you write your Progress Notes you use a check box on the screen to indicate with or without patient. Based on what you check determines what we send to the Billing Module and what billing codes get placed on the line items.

· Made DMH illness Management and Recovery so it is treated like a group.

· Added Drug Screening UA for the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services as H0003 HF to the system.

· Added "DMH-Prevention Type Activities" to the full and simple Treatment Plan.

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