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June 2010
This month's updates come from:
- Building Bridges for Children's Mental Health
- Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council
- Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- Office of the Governor
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
For more resources on systems integration, including tools to guide you through planning to implementation to evaluation, please visit the Repository for Systems Transformation at http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/ps/ipsp/ReST/index.html
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Building Bridges for Children’s Mental Health
- Building Bridges has been invited to the 15th Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health in Albuquerque, New Mexico to present on their efforts to improve behavioral health in schools. Building Bridges has developed and gathered many tools and resources for schools, communities, students, and families that promote the social emotional development and address the behavioral health needs of Colorado’s students.
- To explore these tools and resources, please go to http://www.csi-policy.org/buildingbridges/
For more information, please contact Barb Bieber at Bieber_B@cde.state.co.us
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Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council Integrated Care Map
- A crucial part of health care reform in the United States is the movement toward treating the whole person - mind and body - in an integrated setting. Colorado has been making strong efforts in this direction for quite some time and now has a tool for various health care providers and policy makers to learn about the different levels of collaborative arrangements that currently exist across the state.
- The Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council (CBHC) has been mapping and profiling all of the locations where its member community mental health providers are currently providing integrated services, totaling nearly one hundred sites to date. The CBHC Integrated Care Map demonstrates how providers have tailored their collaborative efforts to meet the unique needs of each community, pulling from the diverse pool of community resources available to help assure success.
- To read more about the CBHC Integrated Care Mapping Project and to see the Map itself, please go to http://www.cbhc.org/integration/map.
For more information, please contact Brian Turner at bturner@cbhc.org.
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Colorado System of Care Collaborative
- At the last meeting of the Colorado System of Care Collaborative, a very successful strategic planning session was held. The next meeting will develop the recent planning into a concrete Action Plan for the Collaborative. The meeting will be on Friday July 2nd, from 9:30am to 11:30am, at the Jefferson County Juvenile Assessment Center, 11011 W. 6th Avenue, Suite 120, Lakewood, Colorado 80215. All are welcome.
For more information, please contact Gloria Blosser at gloriab@jeffcojac.org
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Office of the Governor
- Governor Ritter has recently signed into law a number of bills aimed at improving Colorado's health care delivery system. Here are some highlights:
- HB10-1008: No Gender Individual Health Insurance Rates. The bill prohibits carriers from using gender as a basis for varying premium rates for individual health insurance policies and declares premium rates based on gender to be unfairly discriminatory. The prohibition will apply to individual health coverage plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2011.
- HB10-1021: Required Coverage for Reproductive Services. This bill requires that entities issuing individual sickness and accident insurance policies in Colorado must provide the same coverage for maternity care as is currently mandated for all group sickness and accident insurance policies. The bill also requires both individual and group policies to provide coverage for contraception.
- HB10-1028: Early Childhood Universal Application. The bill establishes an early childhood universal application subcommittee to the government data advisory board created in the office of information technology. The subcommittee will report to the chief information officer (CIO), and the CIO will prepare a report on a universal application to be used for Medicaid, CHP+, Head Start, CO Preschool Program, Free or Reduced-cost lunch, child care assistance, child and adult care food program, CO Works, WIC, food stamps, early childhood council programs, LEAP and affordable housing programs.
- HB10-1330: Creation of an All-Payer Claims Database. Aimed at transparency in the health care system, this bill will make public many kinds of information on safety, quality, cost, and efficiency at all levels of the Colorado health care system.
- HB10-1332: Medical Clean Claims Act. This bill streamlines and standardizes insurance claims. Health care providers must use a new standardized bill coding systems.
- HB10-1033: Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment. This bill adds screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment for alcohol and other substance abuse services (SBIRT) to the list of optional services provided to Medicaid recipients.
- HB10-1041: Universal Application for Children’s Medicaid. As part of Medicaid eligibility modernization, the bill authorizes the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to create a universal application for single point of entry for home- and community based services waivers for children.
- Other bills signed include: HB10-1228: Dependent Coverage State Health Benefits; SB10-153: Behavioral Health Screening & Efficiency; and SB10-167: Medicaid Efficiency & False Claims.
For a full list of the session’s passed bills and the Governor’s action on them, please click here.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has just released a website designed to provide tailored, state-specific health care information to families with children, individuals, people with disabilities, seniors, young adults, and employers. The site’s information is organized into sections on finding insurance options, learning about prevention, comparing care quality, and understanding the new law.
- This is the first web site to collect both public and private health insurance options across the nation in a single place. As such, it may prove to be an extremely useful tool for foundations and grantee organizations. The site features an interactive timeline highlighting key provisions of the Affordable Care Act, and there is a section devoted to implementation, which features materials related to the Act, including regulations, authorities, and requests for comment.
- To access the site, please go to http://www.healthcare.gov/
For more information, please go to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at http://www.hhs.gov/
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To be included in next month's LINKING YOU, please send us your planning or organization group's name, contact info, up to three bullets of one sentence each, and where possible, a link to more information.
Brought to you by the Center for Systems Integration for the Colorado LINKS for Mental Health Initiative. For more information about the Initiative, please contact Jewlya Lynn at Jewlya@CSI-Policy.org.
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