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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

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I’m in my 14 th year as a mobile emergency psychiatric social worker. Although most mobile psychiatric emergency cases have involved mentally high functioning patients, I’ve been most invigorated from helping the most impaired patients, usually suffering from psychosis. Most states have overly restrictive involuntary hold laws.

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Understanding the PEPPER Can Reduce Home Health and Skilled Nursing Audit Risks

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Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER). Inpatient psychiatric facilities. This free resource is accessible online and can play an essential part in your internal compliance program in 2023, a year of increased oversight by CMS.

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Why Successful Integrated Care Management Matters

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According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), integrated care is defined as “the systematic coordination of general and behavioral healthcare.” Identifying social determinants of health PCPs must be mindful of the social determinants of health in their referrals as well.

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Innovations in Behavioral Healthcare: A Digital Path to Resilience

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In 2020, the American Psychiatric Association noted that? Several factors drove these concerns, such as licensing, Medicare/Medicaid?reimbursement, Medicaid beneficiaries use telehealth services. SoonerCare Medicaid program. The behavioral health sector is following suite. 85% of psychiatrists ?met a majority of?their