Yvette Kelly

Accurately documenting Youth Peer Support and Training (YPST) is critical to providing quality care and ensuring reimbursement. This two-part webinar series reviewed general best practices for documentation, key CFTSS documentation requirements, and recommendations specific to developing treatment plans for YPST.

Please note, this is part 2 of the webinar series. Information is as accurate as of the date of the presentation: December 19th, 2019

Target Audience: Youth Peer Advocates and Youth Peer Advocate Supervisors

Accurately documenting Youth Peer Support and Training (YPST) is critical to providing quality care and ensuring reimbursement. This two-part webinar series reviewed general best practices for documentation, key CFTSS documentation requirements, and recommendations specific to developing treatment plans for YPST.

Please note, this is part 1 of the webinar series. Information is as accurate as of the date of the presentation: December 12th, 2019

Target Audience: Youth Peer Advocates and Youth Peer Advocate Supervisors

This webinar provided a service overview, discussed managed care billing and contracting, and reviewed medical necessity/UM, referrals, and recommendations for Youth Peer Support and Training. 

The goal of this webinar was to provide reminders of key readiness efforts that should already be underway for the Jan 1st 2020 YPST transition to Managed Care.

The webinar also included a few case examples of YPST and provided opportunity for Q&A regarding preparing for Managed Care.

This webinar will review the CFTSS Health Record Documentation Guidance and provide responses to frequently asked provider questions. This webinar will review the underlying principles and practices that drive CFTSS documentation and the associated requirements; with a particular focus on the treatment planning process. 
 

Accurately documenting Family Peer Support Services (FPSS)  is critical to providing quality care and ensuring reimbursement. This webinar will review general best practices for documentation, key CFTSS documentation requirements, and recommendations specific to developing treatment plans for FPSS.
 
We recommend that you review the following resources in advance:

Accurately documenting Family Peer Support Services (FPSS)  is critical to providing quality care and ensuring reimbursement. This webinar will review general best practices for documentation, key CFTSS documentation requirements, and recommendations specific to developing treatment plans for FPSS.

Conducting visits in the community can be a valuable strategy in partnering with families to better understand their needs, increase engagement and support retention of learned skills.  Due to an increased demand of community based services, the effective use of community based interventions will be a core competency for providers, in a variety of settings. This webinar will identify how out-of-office experiences can enhance therapeutic effectiveness and improve engagement.

As part of the NYS Medicaid Children’s System Transformation, previously carved out OMH and OASAS services will be moving into the Medicaid Managed Care benefit package beginning July 1, 2019:

In March 2019, MCTAC and NYS OCFS facilitated in-person trainings throughout New York concerning the Article 29-I license. The purpose of these trainings was to provide a foundational understanding of the Article 29-I requirements, address themes and concerns that came up during past focus groups, and have Voluntary Foster Care Agencies (VFCAs) develop a strategic plan for implementing Article 29-I.

Topics included allocations, EHR, phased implementation, preparing to work with Managed Care, etc. 

This webinar series reviews in detail the Children's Aligned Home and Community Based Service array. 

Each webinar focuses on a distinct group of children's Home and Community Based Services and will include service descriptions, eligibility, and general business rules (such as qualifications, limitations, etc.).

Webinar #3 Covered: Community Habilitation, Day Habilitation, Palliative Care: Bereavement Service, Palliative Care: Expressive Therapy, Palliative Care: Massage Therapy and Palliative Care: Pain and Symptom Management.