Successfully Integrating Behavioral and Medical Healthcare
October 26-28, 2010, Chicago, IL
Calling all presenters for The Managed Care Behavioral Health Forum! Here is your chance to be part of biggest forum on behavioral health in 2010! If you have an interesting example of a success story, a field-tested solution to a pressing business problem or a case study of a way your organization has "jumped the curve" in the area of Behavioral Health, Depression, etc, please let us know. For consideration for this event, please prepare your proposal and contact Sarah Berkley, Program Director, at (646) 723-8047 or sarah.berkley[at]worldrg.com.
This conference not only identifies the benefits of and how to integrate medical behavioral healthcare, but it also focuses on how health plans can address depression and other behavioral health issues to receive the most ROI and keep members as healthy as possible. Many patients presented with a behavioral problem also suffer serious physical ailments as a result of their mental illness. It is cost efficient to integrate these services than to keep them separate and will also result in better patient care.
Topics Include but are Not Limited to:
- Implementing an Integration Model
- Identifying Populations to Receive Services through an Integrated Approach
- Integrating Behavioral Health into Traditional Disease Management Programs
- Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
- Behavioral Healthcare Equity
- Merging the Collaboration Gaps between Behavioral and Medical Healthcare
- Medicare and Medicaid Guidelines for Behavioral Health Services
- Measuring ROI for Disease and Case Management Programs
- Improving Depression Disease Management Programs
- Globally Managing Depression Across Medical and Pharmacy Sides and Across Primary and Behavioral Healthcare
- How to and the Benefits of Bringing Behavioral Health in House
- Establishing Reimbursement Mechanisms for Practitioners
- Screening Populations as a Way of Enrollment as Opposed to Other Methods
- Integrating Behavioral Health Specialists with Primary Care Physicians
More information:
www.worldrg.com/showConference.cfm