March 24

Juvenile Personnel Training Program

Working with African American

Youth and Their Families

9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

(918) 660-3700

Midwest City Public Library,

8143 E. Reno

AUDIENCE: General - Anyone who is employed by or volunteers for a JPTP-eligible organization.

PREREQUISITES: Previous training in cultural diversity is strongly recommended (Differences: Building Bridges or Walls).

View the FY09 JPTP Training Schedule online

March 19

Governor's Transformation Advisory Board

1:30-3:30

State Capitol, Rm 104

The purpose of the Board is to advise Oklahoma as it develops a Comprehensive Mental Health Plan. The Board is the catalyst that enables meaningful and significant transformation to occur within Oklahoma.

The Board consists of 28 members. The Directors of each service providing agency along with senators, representatives, consumers, youth, and family members all serve on this Board.

March 19-20

ODAPCA 33rd Bi-Annual Spring Conference

National Center for Employee Development, 24th and Imhoff Road, Norman

Download Registration Form

Relapse,

Relationships

& Recovery

“Bringing All

the Pieces

Together” is the theme for this conference.

Claudia Black, M.S.W., Ph.D., renowned author and trainer recognized for her pioneering and contemporary work with family systems and addictive disorders, will be the keynote speaker.  Dr. Black’s topics will be “Trauma in the Addicted Family” and “Deceived: Facing Sexual Betrayal, Lies and Secrets.”  The conference includes a range of concurrent workshops, with each worth 3 CEUs.

Practice Management Insight

March 2009

A report on events affecting Oklahoma providers

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MARK YOUR

CALENDAR

Major changes coming April 1

Is your software system ready for the State rate changes scheduled for April 1?  If you’re using ThinkHealth from OrionNet Systems, you’ll be ready.

If you’re not using ThinkHealth, call 405.286.1674 to get ready.

Free online training to cover new bill codes

OrionNet Systems plans free web conference training for all of its users in March so they will understand the rate and code changes and what the changes will mean to how they submit Treatment Plans and bill their services.   With changes the OrionNet Systems is putting into place this conference will also show centers how to increase the services they are providing and be alerted so they do not over bill.

“To help everyone understand what OHCA is about to do and how it will impact ThinkHealth, we are planning a free online meeting to talk about the changes and to get your feedback.  We will do this with web conferencing software so I can show you screens and you can ask questions in an online chat window,” OrionNet President Clyde W. Wafford wrote ThinkHealth members.

Example of changes to ThinkHealth

A few points to be covered in the web conference:

1. You will not submit in ThinkHealth Units or RVUs any more.

2. When you choose your level, ThinkHealth will show you a list of all the services

that can be provided for the selected level.

3. Each level has a MONTHLY capped amount; we will discuss how ThinkHealth

will show and alert on these caps.

4. If you ask for a 6-month Treatment Plan, you will be specifying the number of

months but the amount per month is set by the level you request.

5. Progress Notes will no longer deduct from Units; they will deduct from a TOTAL

amount for that month.

6. Many new alerts and features will be added to help you not only bill correctly

but keep you from going over your amount and losing money.

You will still list the services on the Objectives that each Objective will cover.

OHCA updates outpatient changes

From the APS Healthcare ~ OKC Outpatient Update

The following information was provided by Debbie Spaeth, OHCA Behavioral Heath Director.  Click here to read the full-text.

“OHCA and APS are working on a simplified PA process that would allow your procedure codes to become interchangeable.

The PA packet will remain the same (except the RVU page), with no change in the levels of care or the medical necessity criteria.

Instead of listing the number of units of each separate service you need, you will only request the level of care as you do now. Each level will have all the procedure codes and modifiers programmed in.

You will no longer need modification requests unless a consumer’s status changes to a different level of care. If a consumer needs a service you did not request, you may document the need for the service in the clinical record, write your progress notes and file your claim.

Instead of total RVUs allowed per level, RVUs will be calculated out to a total dollar amount per level. ...”

CARF survey

Community

Supports for

Persons with

Medically

Complex Needs

Field Review –

Deadline March 25

CARF conducts field reviews of proposed and revised standards in the areas listed online for inclusion in future standards manuals. Your feedback is critical to maintaining the relevancy and currency of CARF standards. CARF values your opinion, comments, and suggestions on these standards.

Grant application deadline

April 28

SAMHSA  is

accepting

applications

for FY 2009

Grants to Expand

Substance Abuse

Treatment Capacity

in Targeted Areas of Need  -

Local Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care. This program is designed to foster the development and utilization of local recovery-oriented systems of care to address gaps in treatment capacity.

Sign up for The Joint Commission free quarterly newsletter.  From the latest edition:  “The Joint Commission has launched the E-dition, an electronic, searchable version of the accreditation manuals.”

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SAMHSA’s

eNetwork?

SAMHSA's

eNetwork is

your personal link to SAMHSA for the latest news about grants, publications, campaigns, programs, and statistics and data reports.

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