Behavioral Health Updates

Behavioral Health Updates: A Monthly Report for Members of the American Hospital Association and the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems

Conference Calls

Conference Calls for the AHA Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services

CPT Code Changes 2013

American Psychiatric Association Resources

Health Reform Implementation: Implications for Behavioral Health Providers

• The Affordable Care Act (ACA): Shaping Substance Abuse Treatment, explores the ACA's impact on substance abuse treatment clients, providers, and payers. In particular, it provides analysis of the ACA's Medicaid expansion, Affordable Insurance Exchanges, and Essential Health Benefits (EHBs).
• The Center for Financing Reform and Innovations (CFRI) Information Resource Center: If you have mental health and substance use focused questions regarding the implementation of Affordable Care Act and health financing reform, please email the SAMHSA Center for Financing Reform and Innovations (CFRI) Information Resource Center at CFRI.info.samhsa@samhsa.hhs.gov.
• Issue Brief: Affordable Care Act Expands Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Benefits and Federal Parity Protections for 62 Million Americans, ASPE
• Overview of the Affordable Care Act: Implications for Behavioral Health, SAMHSA
• Essential Health Benefits, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• The Medical Home Model of Care, NCSL
• Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration (IMD Demo), CMS
• Inpatient Psychiatric Facility quality reporting program
• Mandatory Coverage in Health Plans offered by Exchanges, The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
• Depression Centers of Excellence ‘16

More information on the Affordable Care Act is available at HealthCare.gov

Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008

Resources

Reducing Readmissions

• International Journal of Medical Informatics, which showed that hospital readmission rates are lower among psychiatric patients who have their mental health histories included in their electronic health records
• AHA Conference Calls
• HPOE: Health Care Leader Action Guide

Regulations

• The Joint Commission Resources
• EMTALA

Reimbursement

• Medicare
• Medicaid (CMS website)
• The Role of Medicaid for People with Behavioral Health Conditions, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, November 2012
• Private Insurance
• Grants
• Mental Health Financing in the United States
• Mental Health as a Percentage of Total Health Spending

Telemedicine

8 Best Practices in Telemedicine, Becker's Hospital Review, December 2012

The Value (ROI) of Behavioral Health Services

• Treatment Works
• Economic Benefits