behavioral health providers

Madan Jumps In Head-first

By |2017-02-10T09:51:08-07:00June 28th, 2012|Behavioral Health, General|

Our own Madan Gopal from I.T. has been invited by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to participate in a national Roundtable discussion about the role and use of health IT to fill the needs of behavioral health providers, to integrate behavioral health record data into primary care, and on how ”Meaningful Use” could [...]

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Behavioral Health Dashboard Refresh

By |2012-04-03T08:27:17-07:00April 3rd, 2012|Behavioral Health|

Magellan of AZ & their behavioral health providers (and of course our DBHS shop) have been collaborating to develop and update an innovative provider outcomes dashboards to make a transparent window into the effectiveness of the behavioral health system based on core metrics.  The recently updated online dashboards provide great info to the folks that we serve and their [...]

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Behavioral Health “RFI”

By |2017-02-10T09:51:14-07:00March 27th, 2012|Behavioral Health|

We had a productive “Request For Information (RFI)” session this week regarding our ”Recovery Through Whole Health, the Regional Behavioral Health Authority with Health Homes”  project.  About 150 folks attended the session- including potential bidders, members of the behavioral health provider community and peers and family members.  We’ll be using the information from the session [...]

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Recovery Through Whole Health Request for Information

By |2012-03-20T07:37:06-07:00March 19th, 2012|Behavioral Health|

We’ll be having a “Request For Information” session regarding our “ Recovery Through Whole Health, the Regional Behavioral Health Authority with Health Homes” project (a.k.a. the upcoming Request for Proposal for behavioral health services in Maricopa County) this Wednesday beginning 1 pm at the Radisson City Center at 3600 N. 2nd Ave. in Phoenix. Our Integration Website [...]

Recovery Through Whole Health RFI

By |2012-03-20T07:36:42-07:00February 9th, 2012|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

We’ll be having a “Request For Information” session regarding our “ Recovery Through Whole Health, the Regional Behavioral Health Authority with Health Homes” project (a.k.a. the upcoming Request for Proposal for behavioral health services in Maricopa County) on March 21 from 1- 5 pm at the Radisson City Center at 3600 N. 2nd Ave. in Phoenix. We’ll [...]

Building the AZ Health Care Workforce: The National Health Service Corps

By |2012-01-20T09:30:27-07:00January 20th, 2012|General|

Our Health Systems Development shop just got a new workforce recruitment and retention grant from the National Health Service Corps to improve the number of healthcare providers that practice where we have shortages (technically called underserved areas).  The Corps offers medical, dental, and behavioral health providers the opportunity to repay their student loan debts in [...]

Sharpening the Axe

By |2017-02-10T09:51:24-07:00December 19th, 2011|Behavioral Health, General|

There's a well-known quote attributed to Abe Lincoln that goes something like this: "Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the axe."  Maybe somebody will someday quote me as saying:  "Give us 20 months to transform the delivery of behavioral health and primary care services to address the [...]

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Behavioral Health Medicine Transition Update

By |2017-02-10T09:52:08-07:00September 9th, 2010|Behavioral Health|

As you recall, the ADHS budget reduction last fiscal year required us to scale back the services we provide to folks who were receiving behavioral health services but don’t qualify for AHCCCS (called Non-Title XIX).  We also needed to switch to a “generic formulary” for Non-Title XIX folks on July 1 (which saves about $7M/year).  [...]

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