| May 2011 Medicaid Expansion Webinar |
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What Addiction Professionals Need to Know About Medicaid Expansion 2014 and Preparing to Bill for Medicaid Archived: Click here to download this two-hour webinar for free! Earn Business Hours for your time by passing the online Quiz. Download: PowerPoint Presentations - Session One and Session Two Price: Education is FREE to all professionals Earn Business Hours: All applicants for Business Hours credit are required to complete and pass this online Quiz after viewing the webinar. Members of NAADAC or AccuCare Subscribers receive 2 a Certificate of Completion for 2 BHs for free. Non-members of NAADAC or Non-subscribers of AccuCare receive 2 BHs for $25 (make payment here). A Certificate of Completion will be emailed to you within 21 days of submission and receiving payment, if applicable. Description: This two hour session is divided into two parts - 1) Preparing for Healthcare Implementation in 2014: What Addiction Professionals Need to Know About Medicaid Expansion The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), signed into law March 23, 2010, includes a significant expansion, beginning in 2014, of Medicaid to an estimated 16 million individuals. This expansion will greatly impact substance abuse disorder services. This webinar will provide a general overview of the Medicaid expansion slated for 2014 and the implications and opportunities for addiction professionals. 2) Preparing to Bill for Medicaid - What you Need to Know Medicaid Expansion is on the horizon and as a result, many providers are preparing themselves to increase their case load as well as improve their billing process. In the first part of the presentation, we will cover the basic things providers should know if they would like to get setup as a contract provider for Medicaid. This includes:
Who Should Attend: Addiction professionals, employee assistance professionals, social workers, mental health counselors, professional counselors, psychologists andother helping professionals that are interested in learning about addiction-related matters. Technology Partner This webinar is produced in partnership with Orion Healthcare Technology.
Questions or comments? Take a look at our FAQs or email Misti Storie This presentation is for individual use only and may not be reproduced without permission from NAADAC. |
John O'Brien is the Senior Advisor to the Administrator on Health Care Reform at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). John O’Brien was the Director of a Cross System Financing Project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The project provides an opportunity for states, counties and cities to develop strategies for coordinating funding for human services from federal, state and local dollars. He was also a member of the Advancing Recovery Project staff. The Advancing Recovery project Advancing Recovery is an $11 million initiative to improve the quality of addiction treatment through the use of evidence-based practices, or practices supported by research to improve patient outcomes in treatment settings.
Christopher C. Campbell serves as the Director of Government Relations for NAADAC, the Association of Addiction Professionals. He is responsible for ensuring the public policy concerns most important to the addiction professional community - especially insurance parity, federal treatment grants and workforce development - are heard and addressed by policymakers in Washington, D.C. He also will be responsible for building relationships with other Washington-based organizations concerned with addictions policy, aiding the NAADAC Public Policy and Political Action Committees and organizing NAADAC's annual Advocacy in Action conference.