BH Topics
TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED
- National Trends in Behavioral Health Crisis Care - Review the current state pressures in Behavioral Health / Discuss expected trends in BH's future state
- The Business of Behavioral Health Service Lines: Creating Pathways for Success
- Overcoming the Obstacles to Value-Based Behavioral Healthcare: Practical Guidance for Payers, Providers & Employers
- Cross-Payer Parity: Inequities in BH Access
- Building a Cost-Effective Advanced Practice Workforce
- Approaches to delivering cost effective and timely psychiatric care in the emergency department
- Solutions on how to deal with the lack of appropriate facilities/programs and the lack of funding for addressing behavioral health/addiction issues
- Overcoming challenges to insufficient reimbursement issues -specifically for behavioral health/addiction services
- Improving Access to Behavioral Health Service Lines
- Building an Integrated Behavioral Health Program from the Ground Up — Improving care coordination by integrating BH into primary care and ED
- Development and implementation of Interventional Psychiatry Services, including TMS, ketamine, and ECT
- Discuss impact of regulatory and clinical advances on the future delivery of BH services
- Build alternative crisis services / crisis stabilization units
- Examining costs, utilization, and population trends in BH service lines
- Important role of tele health -improving access to psychiatric care and reducing wait times by utilizing emerging virtual care methods
- Technology advancements –tele-psych, teletherapy, BH navigation systems and other electronic tools
- Recruitment and retention of behavioral health providers -Maintaining a strong talent pipeline to boost ongoing recruitment efforts including incentives for MDs/APPs and licensed counselors
- Addressing the Youth Mental Health Crisis by implementing Self-Sustaining School-Based Services
- Strategies for overcoming the financial, technological, and compliance challenges
- Identifying community partnerships to develop funding opportunities to start successful, self-sustaining programs
- Examine the different metrics for evaluating program financials
- Setting up and managing a crisis stabilization unit for psychiatric patients in crisis/psych emergency services – performance metrics
- 988 line mental health crisis line and its implementation
- Reimbursement / Billing
- Medicaid / Medicare / private insurance/ New updates
- Strategies to handle the overwhelming demand in children and adolescents needing services
And many more key topics of interest!