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Private Practice Essentials Kit with Howard Baumgarten
Package - Video & Book
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Product Details
Format:
Package - Video & Book
Author:
HOWARD BAUMGARTEN, MA, LPC
Publisher:
PESI Inc.
Copyright:
5/21/2014
CE Available:
Yes, See CE credit tab for complete continuing education details
Product Code:
RVKIT052550
Objectives
[+] [-] 046745 - The Affordable Care Act: What Every Mental Health Professional Needs to Know About Obamacare's Impact on Your Practice
  1. Define relevancy of new healthcare legislation to the mental health industry.
  2. Identify six main areas/titles of the Affordable Care Act.
  3. List five sections of the law directly relevant to mental health providers.
  4. Discuss several surprising factors in the legislation.
  5. Develop a responsive six- part plan for implementing healthcare legislation effectively in your practice or agency.
  6. Identify methods for adapting to changes.
  7. Discuss the importance of ongoing legislative education.

Outline
[+] [-] 046745 - The Affordable Care Act: What Every Mental Health Professional Needs to Know About Obamacare's Impact on Your Practice
The Affordable Care Act Explained
  • Why affordable care, and why now?
  • The 10 titles of Affordable Care Act
  • Timeline of essential changes
  • Mental health parity

Legislation Impacting Mental Health Providers
  • Affordable care for all
    • Improving healthcare coverage
    • Affordability & availability
    • Insurance quality improvements
  • Public programs
    • Medicaid accessibility, simplification, services and other improvements
    • Changes in Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
    • Long-term care services
  • Maternal and child health services
    • Quality & efficiency improvement
    • Changing the system of delivery
    • Medicare improvements
  • Chronic disease prevention & public health improvements
    • Modernization & accessibility of prevention and public health
    • Wellness initiatives
  • Workforce changes
  • Innovations in workforce
    • Increase workforce supply
    • Enhance education & training
  • Transparency & clinical integrity
    • Provider accountability
    • Nursing home improvements and transparency
    • Client centered outcomes research
    • Public program integrity provisions

Legislative Surprises
  • Emphasis on mental health
  • No inclusion of LMFT/LPC’s in Medicare
  • Performance for pay

Opportunities & Implications for Clinicians
  • Build consumer trust and confidence
  • Provider accessibility
  • Consumer fears and uncertainty
  • Insurance company collaboration
  • Contract and billing processes
  • Client outcome process
  • Legislative education
  • Increase knowledge, create empowerment
  • Elevate standards of practice and care
  • Professional training
  • Financial investment
  • Thrive through change and adaptation
  • The use of risk and action

Your Affordable Care Implementation Plan
  • Systemic organization
  • Continuity of care
  • Diversification
  • Business and clinical transparencies
  • New forms of professional development
  • Advocacy for clients and clinicians


Author

HOWARD BAUMGARTEN, MA, LPC

Howard Baumgarten, MA, LPC, has nearly 25 years of clinical experience and is an expert on how to successfully merge high standards in mental health care with solid business principles. He has served the Denver area with a successful private practice for 15 years, learning first hand many of the “secrets” to a successful business. While maintaining his full-time clinical practice, Howard consults with new business owners in the field of mental health practice, provides training programs across the country and is the author of Private Practice Essentials: Business Tools for Mental Health Professionals (PESI, 2017).

As the former director for Westside Behavioral Care, Inc., he helped recruit, manage and build one of Colorado’s largest private group mental health practices. Since 2005, he has lectured at the University of Colorado’s Graduate Counseling Program, teaching a course on the establishment, development, and maintenance of clinical practice.

Howard warms his audiences with creative solutions and practical advice, sharing his experiences, with energy and humor!

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Howard Baumgarten maintains a private practice. He is employed by the University of Colorado. He sells websites and services for TherapySites, LLC and receives compensation. He is a speaker, who receives an honorarium, for Cigna Behavioral Health. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Howard Baumgarten has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
Continuing Education Credits Awarded for Completion of Entire Package
[+] [-] Combined Continuing Education Credit From All Components
Breakdown of Continuing Education Credits by Components
[+] [-] 046745 - The Affordable Care Act: What Every Mental Health Professional Needs to Know About Obamacare's Impact on Your Practice
[+] [-] 084900 - Private Practice Essentials
Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Physical Therapists/Physical Therapist Assistants and other Behavioral Health Professionals