Annual Program Directors Meeting Association of Substance Abuse Providers

1. Annual Program Directors MeetingAssociation of Substance Abuse Providers Mike Maples, Assistant Commissioner

2. MHSA Initiatives • Treatment RFP • Medicaid Substance Abuse Benefit Development • DDRAC Recommendations Related to Border Violence • Clinical Management Behavioral Health System (CMBHS)

3. Treatment RFP: Completed Milestones

4. Treatment RFP: DRAFT Future Milestones *DSHS reserves the right to change the dates as needed and at the sole direction of DSHS.

5. Treatment RFP: Future Milestones Con’t

6. Medicaid Substance Abuse Benefit • Benefit will be an overlay on the current Medicaid system: STAR and STAR Plus in those applicable service areas (most urban areas); fee for service in non managed acre areas (rural areas). • Project Workgroup continues to work through clinical policies.  Once policies are developed and reviewed internally, there will be an effort to share them with stakeholders. • Concurrent work on Medicaid state plan amendment is happening.

7. Medicaid Substance Abuse Benefit • Workgroups need to be developed to review rules. • Rate setting needs to occur. • Outreach and education plans are ongoing. • Timeline for implementation is still tentatively 6/1/2010.

8. DDRAC Border Recommendations • Request Emergency SAMSHA Funding • Security cameras for border providers • Employee Assistance Program for staff • Staff training for working with gang members • Shoring up treatment programs • Continuation and expansion of drug courts • Pilot program using Recovery Abuse Coaches as a cost effective alternative to treatment

9. DDRAC Border Recommendations • Conduct an impact analysis on the effects of drug decriminalization in Mexico • Invite ONDCP Director Gil Kerlikowske to tour the border areas • Request that unused Access to Recovery Funds be redirected to border areas • Request that unused TANF funds be redirected to treatment for TANF recipients

10. CMBHS: Update • Migration of BHIPS data into CMBHS, through July 31, 2009, is complete. • Incremental data load (data after July 31st) will be complete during the second week of October. • Connection of Mental Retardation and Behavioral Health Outpatient Warehouse (MBOW) reports to CMBHS will delay IT delivery by several weeks.

11. CMBHS: Substance Abuse Deployment • Approx. 200 staff from Regions 6 and 7 have been trained. Service providers and OSARS were included. • Feedback from the trainees about CMBHS and CMBHS training has been very positive. • The need for refresher training will be evaluated and Webinar refreshers will be scheduled if needed.

12. CMBHS: NorthSTAR • Deployment for providers and ValueOptions is scheduled for 2010. • Will include only SA service providers. • Small user acceptance testing of NorthSTAR-related CMBHS functions will be conducted. • Training will be provided for providers and ValueOptions.

13. CMBHS: Mental Health Services • Phase 1 - Data from CARE and MBOW will be regularly imported into CMBHS, keeping the current data submission process for LMHAs unchanged. • Phase 2 - LMHAs will submit data directly to CMBHS using data-sharing standards developed by Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), a federal HHS initiative to provide a secure, nationwide, interoperable information infrastructure to connect providers, consumers, and others involved in healthcare. Panel of DSHS staff, providers, and vendors is being assembled to develop data-sharing standards for elements not covered by the national standards.