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The Coalition regularly informs our members and the general public about issues affecting the behavioral health sector via our e-newsletters Briefs and RECOVERe-works.

We also provide resource information related to specific program initiatives such as PROS and Medicare Part D.

Coalition In The News!

January 2009 New York Nonprofit Press

Restructuring OMH Sex Offender Management Program Can Save State Dollars - written by Phillip A Saperia and Jason Lippman

January 5, 2009 Mental Health Weekly

Economic crisis dominates readers' challenges for 2009 - Phillip A Saperia talks about New York's "year of system transformation in an environment of diminished resources".

Medicaid Crystal Ball Conference Handouts:

Keynote Presentation (PDF)
Medicaid:  Is It a Matter of Mission?
Charles G. Curie, MA, ACSW

New York Responds (PDF)
Deborah Bachrach, JD, Medicaid Director, NY State Department of Health

Michael Hogan, PhD, Commissioner, NY State Office of Mental Health

Medicaid Rule Changes and Moratoria: 
Impact on Community Behavioral Health Services (PDF)
Jeffrey Crowley, MPH, Senior Research Scholar, Health Policy Institute, Georgetown University

New Horizons in Medicaid:  Linking Quality of Care and Compliance (PDF)
Mary Thornton, BSRN, MBA
Principle, Mary Thornton Associates

Fiscal Resources:

Not-For-Profit Fiscal Update & the New 990 (6.31MB PDF)

Kenneth Cerini, Managing Partner with Cerini & Associates LLP a certified public accounting firm, made the above presentation at our April 2008 membership meeting.  The update included current trends, the new 990, new 403(b) regulations, raffle regulations and new auditing standards.