11 points for mental health reform support

Due to a better understanding of how many Americans live mental diseases, disorders, drug addiction and how expensive the total expenditure health care are for this group, we have reached a critical point of dumpers as far as the reform of health care. We need to understand the importance of the health needs of persons with the treatment of serious mental illness and responding on the needs of health care for all Americans. This is the creation of a series of attractive Community preserve the health and a number of unprecedented challenges the Organization of mental health in the United States are determined to ensure expertise and leadership in hosting the Member organisations, agencies, federal, State, health and consumer groups in order to ensure that the key issues facing people with mental health and substance use disorders are properly addressed and integrated health care reform.

Awaiting the parity and mental health care reform legislation in many organizations, national and community mental health have been thinking, meetings, and writing for much more than a year, continues their work., and their results, the guidelines of these organisations lobbying Government health care reforms

THE DELIVERY OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

1. Mental health/substance using a health provider places the building: mental health in the community and substance use treatment organizations, group practices and individual clinicians will have to increase their ability to provide measurable, highly efficient, prevention, early intervention, recovery and wellness oriented services and supports.

2. Person-Centered Healthcare Homes: will a much greater need for mental health and clinicians use substances on primary care practices and the suppliers of primary care in the mental health and substance use treatment organizations, using emerging clinical models and best practices, and reliable links between primary care and behavioral health care specialist.

3. Peer school and consumer Operated services: WE will see the extension of services supported by consumers and integration with computers with mental health and substance use workforce and service array, underscoring the crucial role they play in these efforts to promote the rehabilitation and wellness of persons with mental health and substance use disorders.

4. guidelines for mental health Clinic: the pace of the development and dissemination of mental health and substance use clinical guidelines and clinical tools will increase with the support of the new Patient-Centered outcomes research, Institute for research and implementation activities. of course, part of this initiative include helping nervosa patients find mental health clinic nearby.

MANAGEMENT OF THE SYSTEM OF MENTAL HEALTH

5. extension of Medicaid and health insurance Exchange: Member will have to take serious changes to processes, improvement of the quality and value of mental health and substance use services in parity, as their Medicaid systems development to prepare for enlargement and the design of the health insurance Exchange organization, you will need to vendor to work with new designs of Medicaid and agreement with the invoice through the Exchange services.

6. plans for the health of Employer-sponsored and parity: employers and benefit managers will have to redefine the use of behavioral health services and absences presenteeism and develop more flexible and productive workforce.Supplier organizations will have to adapt their services to the needs of the employer and work with the customer and billing systems.

7. organisations responsible for the handling and redesigning health plan: taxpayers will promote and in some cases, the mandate of the development of new management structures that support health care reform, including the responsibility of the maintenance organisation Exposition and rebuilding health plan, providing guidance on how mental health and substance use, should be included to improve the quality and better management of the total expenditure of the health care Provider organizations should take. participation and become the owners of the ACOs, which, in their communities.

MENTAL HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE

8. improving quality for mental Healthcare: organizations including the National Quality Forum will accelerate the development of national quality improvement strategy, which includes mental health and substance use outcomes, used to improve the delivery of mental health and substance use services, the results of the health of patients and the health of the population and cost management. Supplier organizations will have to develop infrastructure in order to operate within the framework of this agreement.

9. information technology, health: Federal and State of THE HIT need to reflect the importance of the initiatives of mental health and substance use services and include mental health and substance using the provider and the data requirements in terms of financing, project work and the development of infrastructure Vendor organization. will have to be able to implement electronic health records and patient records and link these systems Community health information networks and the exchange of health information.

10. healthcare payment reform: payers and health plans, you need to design and implement new payment mechanisms, in this case, the rates and a capitation tax, that is based on the value of the acquisition and based on the value of the project assurance strategies that are appropriate for people with mental health and substance use disorders. suppliers will have to adapt their practice management systems and invoicing and work processes in order to work with these new mechanisms.

11. development of the employees: the main effort in the work of the Advisory Committee for a new job, you will need to develop a strategy of the national workforce to meet the needs of persons with mental health and substance use disorders, including the extension of the school peer. Supplier organizations will have to participate in these activities and be ready to ramp to their workforce to develop demand.

Linda Rosenberg is President and Director of the National Council of Healthcare community guidelines. TNC specializes in lobbying for research, diagnosis and treatment of mental diseases. Lean http://www.thenationalcouncil.org details.