The Commonwealth Fund has released it 2009 report titled: “Aiming Higher – Results from A State Scorecard on Health System Performance” and the evidence is irrefutable where suicide prevention is concerned. States that demonstrate improved access to mental health care, especially among the most vulnerable populations, show a dramatic decrease in the rate of [...]
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 October 15th, 2009 |  Leave a comment |  Tags: access, behavioral health, healthcare, mental health, Parity, substance use disorder, suicide, treatment | Advocacy & Education The question of what to do with employee assistance programs or EAP when Parity legislation drastically expands behavioral health coverage is not new. We have been dealing with this question for more than a decade. The questions take on several different flavors: Is it true that mental health and substance abuse coverage will be [...] September 21st, 2009 | Leave a comment | Tags: behavioral health, consumers and families, EAP, employee assistance program, Employers, ERISA, MBHO, mental health, Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, Parity, suicide | "The Business" of Behavioral Healthcare, Funding and Financing, Plan Design, Policies & Procedures Today is Suicide Prevention Day sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP). The relationship between suicide prevention and the breadth and value of behavioral health coverage as well as access to qualified experts who deliver evidence-based practices is clear and crucial. Enhanced care and coverage does [...] September 10th, 2009 | Leave a comment | Tags: mental health, primary care, psychiatric, substance use disorder, suicide, treatment | Advocacy & Education I am attending the SAMHSA Grantees conference this week and presenting on the topic of Parity. The theme for the entire conference is “Challenges & Opportunities”. I’ve already prepared my slides and hand-outs but did a bit more thinking on the plane. I did more reading, to be honest. My briefcase is jammed with [...] June 18th, 2009 | Leave a comment | Tags: behavioral health, evidence-based practices, homelessness, managed behavioral health organization, managed care, MBHO, medications, mental health, NCQA, Parity, primary care, psychiatric, SAMHSA, state hospital, suicide, treatment | "The Business" of Behavioral Healthcare, Advocacy & Education, Best and Evidence-Based Practices |
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