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for Presentations: 2008 SAAS National Conference
SAAS MEMBERS:
Please distribute this Call for Presentations to your member
programs, partners, state government contacts and any other
interested parties. Questions? Call Julie Shepard at (515)
223-6211 or email julie@isapda.org.
Thanks!
CALL
FOR PRESENTATIONS
2008 SAAS National Conference and NIATx Annual Summit
June 22-25, 2008 Orlando, FL
SAAS and NIATx are combining
their annual conferences to create a single, exciting event
for the addiction and behavioral health treatment field. We
would like to add to our excellent line-up of workshop presentations.
All workshops are 90 minutes in length. To have your presentation
considered for the conference, please read and complete the
attached "Call for Presentations" document and email
to joyce@trainingresources.org.
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The
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)/NIH Invites Comments
on its Draft Strategic Plan
For the past three decades, the National Institute on Drug Abuse
(NIDA) has led the way in supporting research to prevent and
treat drug abuse and addiction and mitigate the impact of their
consequences— particularly the spread of HIV/AIDS and other
infectious diseases. Given recent revolutionary advances in
drug abuse research, NIDA has recently undergone a strategic
planning process gathering recommendations from the National
Advisory Council on Drug Abuse and from ongoing dialogue with
our various stakeholder groups to establish achievable goals
and objectives for the future. NIDA's Draft Strategic Plan outlines
four major goal areas – Prevention, Treatment, HIV/AIDS,
and Cross Cutting Priorities – each with Strategic Objectives
that will guide NIDA's research agenda for the future.
The public is invited to review this draft plan -- accessible
through the NIDA web site link http://www.drugabuse.gov/StrategicPlan/Index.html -- and
provide comments via email to stratplan@nida.nih.gov
or mail to:
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Attn: Draft Strategic Plan
6001 Executive Blvd.
Suite 5213 , MSC 9561
Bethesda , MD 20892-9561
Comments must be emailed or postmarked by February 6, 2008. |
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OHP
Standard Reservation List open January 28 - February 29
The transmittal noted above is available on the DHS Web site
at:
http://www.dhs.state.or.us/policy/healthplan/transmit/im/2008/im08004.pdf
All DMAP transmittals are located on the DHS Web site at:
http://www.dhs.state.or.us/policy/healthplan/transmit/main.htm
Technical note: If the above links do not work by clicking on
them, please copy and paste them into your internet browser.
Please share this e-mail with staff members who need to be aware
of this information promptly.
If you have a disability and need this document in another format,
please send an e-mail to DHS.Forms@state.or.us
or contact the Office of Document Management at (503) 378-3523.
If you know of others who need this accommodation, please let
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More Mental Health Bills
Scrutinized
Wave of Medicaid audits continues, with more providers on the
hook to repay millions
BY CHRIS LYDGATE
The Portland Tribune, Jan 8, 2008
Mental health agencies around the state are looking over their
shoulders as they grapple with an unprecedented spate of Medicaid
audits launched by the state Office of Payment Accuracy and
Recovery, the fiscal guardian of the government health insurance
program for Oregon’s poorest residents.
Out of 99 Medicaid audits being conducted by the office, a full
23 target providers of mental health and addictions treatment,
ranging from private nonprofits, such as Cascadia Behavioral
Healthcare, to individual therapists to county bureaucracies
such as the Yamhill County Health and Human Services Division.
“People are very concerned,” says Ed Blackburn, deputy
director of Central City Concern, a Portland nonprofit that
agreed to repay the government $1.4 million for inadvertently
overbilling Medicaid in 2006.
State investigators insist they aren’t putting mental health
providers in their cross-hairs. “Whenever we have big audits
in any area, they say it’s a crackdown,” says Trisha
Baxter, OPAR administrator.
“But we have always done audits, and we will always do
audits, so it’s not that we’re targeting them.”
Nonetheless, several of the state’s biggest mental health
providers are facing demands for repayment from Medicaid auditors.
Cascadia faces a bill of $2.7 million; Mid-Columbia Center for
Living owes $500,000; and Lane County $939,000. Other audits
are in a more preliminary stage and are not yet public record.
Read
the article. |
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OPERA
is
a statewide, nonprofit association of private sector and tribal
entities who provide treatment, prevention and training services.
We are dedicated to ending addiction by ensuring the development
and maintenance of the highest quality statewide service systems. |
Mission
OPERA’s mission is to eliminate alcohol and drug problems
and their social, health and behavioral consequences through
use of evidence-based practices; partnerships with public and
private, social and healthcare providers; and advocacy for effective
budget and public policy. |
Vision
We envision a society in which alcohol and drug problems are
recognized as a public health issue that is both preventable
and treatable. We envision a society in which high quality services
for prevention and treatment of alcohol and drug problems are
widely available, and where prevention and treatment are recognized
as specialized fields of expertise. |
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