Professional Learning Center

Professional Learning Center

The Coalition's Professional Learning Center provides training and technical assistance to the behavioral health sector, on issues that have direct financial and regulatory consequences, to community agencies. Behavioral healthcare workers, from peer advocates to executive directors, have been trained on a variety of different topics.

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The Coalition is pleased to be an OASAS Certified Education and Training Provider.

Reengineering the Business Model for NYC’s NFP Mental Health Clinics

The broad objective of this project is to help 15-20 behavioral health agencies, with budgets of $12 million and under, to fundamentally reengineer their business models and prepare them for future financial challenges due to changing Medicaid regulations.  This project was borne from the State Office of Mental Health's restructuring of Article 31 Mental Health Clinics (Part 599 regulations).  The new clinic model significantly alters the regulatory and reimbursement methodology for these clinics. 

The initial participants selected were part of an earlier study which produced an exhaustive analysis using an OMH fiscal model.  The study showed that all 70 clinics in the study would lose money and the smaller clinics risked closure.

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New e-Learning Partnership

The Coalition is pleased to partner with Essential Learning to offer our members discounted web-based continuing education and training opportunities in the areas of behavioral health, developmental disabilities, substance abuse and child welfare.  Learn more about what this partnership has to offer!

2010/11 PLC Offered Trainings:

Complying with Billing and Documentation requirements under new Clinic Regulations

              Mental Health Billing and Documentation under Part 599
              Substance Abuse Billing and Documentation under Part 822

Considerations in Trying to Budget Clinic Treatment Program Income

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

              Basic Principles
              Format of Sessions and Functional Analysis
              Skills Training I:  Cravings and Thoughts
              Skills Training II:  Special Topics
              CBT and Psychopharmacology

Dialetical Behavioral Therapy for the Multiple-Disordered Client

              A five session series

Cultural Competency for Clinicians

              Working with Multi-Cultural Populations

Motivational Interviewing

              Introduction
              Dual Diagnosis Model of MI
              Developing MI Micro-Skills      
              Identifying and Facilitation Change Talk
              Responding to Resistance

Supervision and Supervising in Motivational Interviewing

              Spirit and Empathy – Global Ratings, OARS Skills and Complex Reflections
              Rolling with Resistance, Recognizing / Reinforcing / Eliciting Change Talk

Advanced Motivational Interviewing

OMIG Audits, Investigations and Compliance

Advanced Management Training

              Managing During Difficult Economic Times
              Developing and Managing Operating Budgets and Grants
              Utilizing Performance Indicators / Maximizing Revenue
              Managing Difficult Employees/Mediating and Resolving Conflicts
              Planning and Managing Large Projects
              Preparing for Survey and Financial Audits
              Behavior in the Workplace

Compliance Updates – HIPAA, HITECH, OMIG, ARRA, DRA

              Compliance Survival for NY Behavioral Health Providers
              Update on Federal and State Privacy and Security Provisions

Evaluation and Management Coding for MH and SA Providers

              Medical Documentation / Consultation for Doctors / Medical Directors
              How to audit E&M / Tools to use for Quality Assurance Staff

Diversity and Inclusion

              Racial Injustice

New Mental Health Ventures    

              Accountable Care Organizations           
              Redesigning Provider Organizations
              Designing Provider Sponsored Networks
              What is an FQBHC

Integrated Care

              Integrated Care 101:  What you need to know

Skills Building in Residential Programs

2009/10 Offered Trainings:

Program Requirements

• OMIG Part 521 Compliance Requirements
• Data Privacy
• Overpayment and Fraud & Abuse

Clinic Reform

• Enhancing Clinic Operations
• Delivering Quality Clinical Care

Clinic Reform Billing/Documentation

• New Clinic Billing and Coding
• New Clinic Documentation

Concurrent Documentation

• Concurrent Documentation Techniques

PROS Billing/Documentation

• PROS Billing and Coding
• PROS Documentation

Advanced Management Training

• Managing Difficult Employees/Mediating and Resolving Conflicts
• Developing and Managing Operating Budgets
• Utilizing Performance Indicators / Maximizing Revenue
• Understanding and Interpreting Basic Financial Statements
• Planning and Managing Large Projects
• Preparing for Survey and Financial Audits
• Behavior in the Workplace

Introduction to Tip 42

• Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons with Co-Occuring Disorders

Sex, Communication, and Safety: A Tool for Mental Health Providers

Contingency Management

• Introduction to Contingency Management

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

• Introduction to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

Cultural Competency for Clinicians

• Working with Multi-Cultural Populations

Addictions and Mental Health: Concepts, Medications, Decision, Reflections

• For Substance Abuse and Mental Health Clinicians

Harm Reduction

• Part I – Understanding and Engaging Clients with Co-occuring Disorders
• Part II – Harm Reduction Therapy Process:  Therapeutic task, Techniques, Strategies

Motivational Interviewing

• Introduction
• Dual Diagnosis Model of MI
• Developing MI Micro-Skills
• Identifying and Facilitation Change Talk
• Responding to Resistance

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

• Basic Principles
• Format of Sessions and Functional Analysis
• Skills Training I:  Cravings and Thoughts
• Skills Training II:  Special Topics
• CBT and Psychopharmacology

Treatment Planning Series

• The Stages of Change: A Practical Model of Treatment
• A Practical Model of Supervision:  Assuring the Integration of Quality of Care and Compliance in the Public Sector
  

2008/09 Offered Trainings:

Medicare / Medicaid Billing Series

Medicaid Billing 101
Mediciad Spend-down
Medicare Billing 101
Nuts and Bolts of Cross-over Billing
Billing for Substance Abuse Services

Billing and Coding - Meeting OMIG Requirement

Billing Case Management Services
Billing in ACT Programs
Mental Health Billing Operations - Denied Claims

Billing and Coding - Meeting the New SOMH Clinic Model

CPT Coding for Administrators and Billing Staff
CPT Documentation
E&M Coding and Documentation
Meeting State's Utilization Reporting
Summary of OMH Proposed Clinic Model Coding and Documentation

Client Record Documentation:  What We Do - What We Write

Clinical Services
Rehabilitation Services

Cognitive-Behavioral Counseling

Basic Principles
Functional Analysis
Skills Training I: Cravings and Thoughts
Skills Training II: Special Topics
CBT and Psychopharmacology

Motivational Interviewing

Introduction
Dual Diagnosis Model of MI
Developing MI Micro-Skills
Identifying and Facilitating Change Talk
Responding to Resistance

Harm Reduction

Understanding and Engagaing Clients with Co-occurring Disorders
Harm Reduction Therapy Process: Therapeutic Task, Techniques, Strategies

Addictions and Mental Health:  Concepts, Medications, Decisions, Reflections

For Substance Abuse Clinicians
For Mental Health Clinicians

Addictions and Sexuality

For Substance Abuse Clinicians
For Mental Health Clinicians

Overview of Dual Diagnosis

Principles of Integrated Treatment and Treatment Planning

Cultural Competency - For Clinicians

Working with Multi-Cultural Populations

Child Abuse Reporting

Live Consultation:  Assessing the Effectiveness of your Compliance Plan

Mental Health Parity

DRA False Claims - State Federal Medicaid Enforcement

New Privacy Law Developments Affecting Behavioral Healthcare Providers

Impact of Privacy and Security provision in ARRA, Interplay between HIPAA and NY laws, Potential HIT Funding, RHIOs and Impact of FTC's "Red Flag" Rule

HIPAAUpdate

Refresher in HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulations, include New Provisions in HITECH Act.

Corporate Compliance

Risk Management / Board Training

Understanding the New IRS 990s

Forth Annual Advanced Management Training Institute

Managing Difficult Employees/Mediating and Resolving Conflicts
Developing and Managing Operating Budgets
Utilizing Performance Indicators/Maximizing Revenue
Understanding and Interpreting Basic Financial Statements
Planning and Managing Large Projects
Preparing for Surveys and Financial Audits
Behavior in the Workplace