Educational programs that you can participate in without turning the key in your ignition!
Exploring Recovery-Based Care for Addiction is a web-assisted audio conference sponsored by the National Conference of State Legislatures and several other well known national addiction advocacy partners. It is aimed at educating policy-maker about recovery-oriented services but should be a great educational opportunity for providers and advocates too. |
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The July Meeting will be held Wednesday, July 9th at 10:00 at The State Club in Raleigh.
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Obama and McCain: Where They Stand on Addiction Issues |
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Based on their records, neither John McCain or Barack Obama can really be considered a leader in the drug-policy arena. Still, both appear to have a broader and more nuanced understanding of addiction issues than their White House predecessor, and William Cope Moyers, vice president of external affairs at Hazelden, says that he has "never been more hopeful that addiction treatment will begin to get the attention it deserves, because we at least have two candidates who are aware of the issue."
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To rules regarding billing for provisionally licensed clinicians.
From the website: The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has heard the concerns expressed regarding the change in billing for provisionally licensed clinicians announced on June 2, 2008 in Implementation Update # 44.
In order to address the concerns, DHHS is announcing today a change in that policy. The Department will implement the changes to the Medicaid “incident to” policy outlined in Implementation # 44; however, DHHS is removing the prohibition against Local Management Entities (LMEs) continuing to bill on behalf of agencies employing or contracting with provisionally licensed clinicians.
Effective July 1, 2008, the services of provisionally licensed clinicians may be billed to Medicaid and Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services funds in three ways: 1) when those clinicians are engaged in providing enhanced services, such as Intensive In-Home, Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient, Assertive Community Treatment Team, etc.; 2) when they provide outpatient therapy under the revised “incident to” policy and their services are billed under the supervising physician’s provider number; and 3) when they provide
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The Division has made several changes to the NC-TOPPS that were announced on June 30th for implementation on July 1st. The changes include a reduction of the lengthen of the consumer interview and these changes have been made to a new printable interview forms. In addition there is a new process for clinicians enrolling to use the system. All these details are available in Communication Bulletin #095 which has been posted to the DMH web site.
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