COURSE 1C - 'COST CONTAINMENT AND YOU!' HOW IT AFFECTS THE WAY THAT YOU MAY DELIVER TREATMENT WITHIN HEALTH CARE REFORM

Course overview

REVISED and Expanded! This Course 1C is copyrighted and published by CEU by Net and awards 2 Clock Hours of CE Credit approved by multiple State Boards including Texas, California, Florida, and Alabama, and by IC&RC and Florida Certification Board. Awards 1 EACC PDH pending re-review. It also awards 1.25 NBCC Hours of CE Credit. <br><br> Based upon these credentials, our courses are accepted by most states for multiple licenses. <br><br> This course contains some of the same introductory material as in 1B, but it also provides additional information about how the idea of 'Cost Containment' in healthcare delivery works in actual practice - within the ACA or ObamaCare and in other Managed Care plans. How will it impact the work we do in mental health and addiction treatment? Can mental health and AOD treatment providers and provider organizations (networks, agencies, AND private practitioners) succeed in the new, so-called 'narrow network' arrangements? Can they have any autonomy? Can they use creativity in their service programs? (Answer: Yes, and we tell you 'how') Also, you will learn 'which' programmatic designs have 'which' major implications for providers and their clients. You can VIEW ALL of the course materials and quizzes on our website FOR FREE - even before you register on the site or decide if you want to enroll in a course. GOALS of this course: 1. Understand the Impact of Managed Care Health Care Reform Including the ACA .... Upon Providers and Clients. 2. Understand 'Narrow Networks', Vertical Integration of Healthcare, and 'Care Management'. 3. Understand the Risk Based Contracts That Are the Core of the ACA - and How Providers Can Adjust Their Referral and Treatment Approaches Constructively within This Cost Containment Framework. 4. Know Several Creative Service Delivery Approaches Which Promote Greater Autonomy In Programming For Mental Health And CD/SA Clients¿ Providers.