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Focused,
Targeted, Cost-Conscious Individualized Addiction Treatment
David
Mee-Lee, M.D.
Workshop
Description
The
behavioral healthcare field continues to change rapidly. Many
clinicians struggle with how to change old ways of assessment,
placement and documentation to reflect the kind of flexible,
individualized treatment needed to survive in a managed care
environment. They also find it difficult to effectively communicate
patient information with managed care and utilization review.
The
aim of this workshop is to broaden participants’ knowledge
about the changing healthcare environment, and help practitioners
deliver cost-conscious, individualized, addiction services.
It will provide the opportunity to practice assessment processes,
treatment planning and care management strategies to better
meet the needs of clients. It will offer a framework that
encourages providers to develop more specific, targeted assessment
and treatment planning strategies and better communicate and
cope with managed care.
Objectives
Participants
will:
1.
Identify the clinical, financial and resource pressures that
contribute to the current healthcare environment and their
effect on clinicians and services involved.
2.
Review the underlying principles of cost-conscious, individualized,
addiction treatment and the increasing need to focus on quality,
outcomes and value in services.
3.
Understand essential assessment data. Understand how to organize
data in focused and targeted ways to improve individualization
of problems and treatment plans; and determine proper placement
decisions.
4. Identify ways to communicate the treatment plan to others,
not least importantly, to the patient and client. Learn ways
to convey patient information to fellow clinicians, care managers,
and those involved in care and utilization management.
Focused,
Targeted, Cost-Conscious Individualized Addiction Treatment
Workshop
Agenda
| 8:30
AM |
Registration
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| 9:00
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A.
The Current Environment · Cost versus Quality |
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Managed Care |
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Accountability and treatment outcomes |
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B.
Underlying Principles of Individualized Behavioral
Health Care |
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Unifying perspective on behavioral health disorders |
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Multidimensional
assessment and level of functioning
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Individualized treatment |
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Levels of care and biopsychosocial treatment |
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C.
How to Organize Assessment Data |
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Immediate need assessment and ongoing assessment |
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Common language for cross systems communication |
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| 10:30
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Break |
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| 10:45
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D.
How to Target and Focus Treatment Priorities |
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Moving from the multidimensional assessment to priorities |
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Treatment planning and documentation skills -Problem identification;
individualized treatment plans |
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| 12
Noon |
Lunch
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| 1:15
PM |
E.
Skill-Building in Engaging the Patient in the Treatment
Plan |
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Understanding stages of change |
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Assessing readiness to change |
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The patient as “customer” |
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Implications for changes in services |
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| 2:30
PM |
Break |
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| 2:45
PM |
F.
The "Real World" |
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Improving communication between the treatment team, outside
reviewers and agencies |
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Dealing with disputes over level of care; continuing service |
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Changes necessary to "re-tool" treatment planning and
systems |
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| 4:00
PM |
Adjourn
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