NIATx Summit and SAAS National Conference: Pre-Conference Workshops

Pre-Conference Workshops - July 10, 2011

SBIRT: A Service for Integrating With Your Local FQHC (1:00 - 5:00 pm)

Summary:

Learn how to present the business case for SBIRT to your local FQHC.

Description:

Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) is an ideal service for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). SBIRT improves people's lives, reduces healthcare costs, and generates positive impacts for families and communities. A 2002 Wisconsin study showed that SBIRT saves nearly $1,000 in healthcare and criminal justice costs for every patient who receives SBIRT services.

SBIRT experts Dr. Rich Brown and Michael Lardiere, Director of National Association of Community Health Centers, share strategies for making SBIRT a seamless and reimbursable addition to FQHC services.

Presenters:

Michael R. Lardiere, LCSW
Director, Health Information Technology
Senior Advisor Behavioral Health, National Association of Community Health Centers

Presentation:

Overview of SBIRT Implementation in FQHCs - The TN & VA experience

Getting Started with Billing Third-party Payers: Using the NIATx Third Party Billing Guide to create a billing system for your organization. (8:00 am - 5:00 pm)

Summary:

Learn how to get your third-party billing system up and running in this daylong workshop.

Description:

In the morning, you'll follow the step-by-step process for creating or improving your billing system outlined in the NIATx Third-party Billing Guide. In the afternoon, hear from participants in the 2010-2011 NIATx Fee-for-Service Learning Collaborative. Over the course of this 9-month project, organizations from 6 states worked on establishing a billing system, increasing contracts with third-party payers, and improving their collections. They'll share the many and sometimes surprising lessons they learned along the way. You'll take away skills, ideas, and promising practices to apply to your own third-party billing system.

Presenters:

Eric Haram
Process Improvement Coach, NIATx

David Moore, MS
Vice President of Quality Improvement
Human Service Center/Fayette Companies

Presentation:

Welcome Using the NIATx Third Party Billing Guide to create a billing system for your organization

Everything you always wanted to know (and a little more) about Health Information Technology (HIT) (8:00 am - 5:00 pm)

Summary:

Representatives from Health Center Controlled Networks(HCCNs) present best-practices and strategies for success when implementing EHRs and EHR systems.

Description:

HCCNs have proven to be a successful model in assisting Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to implement EHRs and achieve Meaningful Use. A full range of topics will be covered that will provide attendees valuable information about the EHR implementation process, including: Practice Management Systems and EHR Systems Basics; Benefits and Economies of Scale when working with an HCCN vs. Going it Alone; EHR Project Planning and Assessment Process; EHR Vendor Selection/Contracting; Workflow Redesign; and more. How all of this activity relates to Meaningful Use of EHRs and what it means to behavioral health providers will be discussed. This informative session will be didactic in nature with presentation support materials.

Presenters:

Michael R. Lardiere, LCSW
Director, Health Information Technology
Senior Advisor Behavioral Health, National Association of Community Health Centers

Angela Strain, GPC
Organizational Advancement Director
Community Health Centers Alliance, Inc. (CHCA), and The Center for the Advancement of Health IT (AHIT)

Michele Russell
Vice President of Business Development
Health Choice Network

Susan Chauvie, RN, MPA-HA
Vice President, Quality for Practice Transformation
OCHIN Health Center Controlled Network and OHITEC, the designated Regional Extension Center for the state of Oregon