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Navigating Uncertainty: What Behavioral Health Agencies Need to Know About the Federal Funding Freeze
January 31, 2025
The recent federal funding freeze has sent ripples through the healthcare system, and behavioral health agencies find themselves at the center of the storm. With bidder conferences canceled, funding forecasts shelved, and no confirmed funding ...
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Parity: The July Report To Congress and the NAIC Summer Meeting
August 11, 2023
The DOL, HHS, and IRS have released their second report (July 2023) to Congress on the agencies’ review of comparative analyses required by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA, 2021) and the Mental Health Parity ...
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Performance Improvement and Sustainability Indicators
April 10, 2023
SAE’s PI&S Division builds client capacity of the behavioral health and health workforce across clinical and non-clinical, community-based settings. We offer hands-on solutions (needs assessment alignment, training process evaluation, process mapping for workflow optimization, root cause analysis ...
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True Parity Or Parity In Name Only?
April 4, 2023
An excessively high rate of denials for behavioral health services in comparison to a lower rate of denials for medical/surgical services could be a potential parity violation of the Federal Parity Law. This discrepancy could ...
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Behavioral Health Parity and Compliance: Structural Flaws Between the Patient, Provider, and Payer
April 4, 2023
This essay is an edited transcription of a larger interview conducted by Communications Director Zillah Glory (SAE Behavioral Health Consulting) and Consultant Expert Alex Hutchinson, MBA. The following key talking points were selected by Consultant ...
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Medication Assisted Treatment Programs for OUD: Implications for Systems Change
February 27, 2023
Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) programs are an important part of treating opioid use disorders, combining medications, counseling, and other therapeutic techniques to provide a comprehensive approach to treatment, and have been shown to be effective ...
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