Free Webinars
In our Educational offerings, some of our webinars are free. We wanted to make sure you could find these easily. Of course, for NBHAP members, many of our paid webinars are either free or discounted as well.
The webinars are order of the date recorded, with the most recent at the top.
Webinar: Look Back, Look Ahead: Behavioral Health Policy After the Elections
- Date Recorded: December 20, 2024
- Presenter: Andrew Kessler
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: free (CE access is $25 for non-members)
This webinar examines the policy priorities of NBHAP in the latter half of 2024, and the odds of accomplishing our goals.
Webinar: 2024 Mid-Year Advocacy Update
- Date Recorded: May 29, 2024
- Presenter: Andrew Kessler
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: free (CE access is $25 for non-members)
This webinar will look at the progress being made in Washington D.C. as we continue to advocate for advances in SUD policy. Our priorities continue to be a stronger workforce, better reimbursement options, expanded medication access, and increased recovery support services.
Webinar: Fall 2023 Advocacy Update
- Date Recorded: November 15, 2023
- Presenter: Andrew Kessler
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: free (CE access is $25 for non-members)
Andrew Kessler gives an update as to what NBHAP has been up to as well as general advocacy information for the behavioral health and addiction treatment industry.
C-ATM Course 16: The Future of Healthcare Privacy: Projecting What’s Ahead and Planning Next Steps
- Date Recorded: August 15, 2023
- Presenters: Harry Nelson and Adella Katz
- CE: not eligible for CEs, but eligible for 1 hour C-ATM renewal
- Price: free
With the constant evolution of technology and rapidly growing collection of health information, we will endeavor in this webinar to project what the future of healthcare privacy will look like in the next few years.
C-ATM Course 15: California Calling: How States are Closing the Federal Gap in Consumer Healthcare Privacy
- Date Recorded: July 18, 2023
- Presenters: Harry Nelson and Adella Katz
- CE: not eligible for CEs, but eligible for 1 hour C-ATM renewal
- Price: free
This webinar series session explores how individual states have taken on the burden to fill in privacy gaps the federal government has been unable to or unwilling to fill.
C-ATM Course 14: A New Sheriff in Town: The Groundbreaking Emergence of the FTC in Privacy Enforcement
- Date Recorded: June 13, 2023
- Presenters: Harry Nelson and Adella Katz
- CE: not eligible for CEs, but eligible for 1 hour C-ATM renewal
- Price: free
This webinar will explore the Federal Trade Commission’s role in protecting health information in areas that HIPAA cannot touch, including direct-to-consumer healthcare apps, booming healthcare technology, and even artificial intelligence.
C-ATM Course 13: How We Got Here: HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2
- Date Recorded: May 13, 2023
- Presenters: Harry Nelson and Adella Katz
- CE: not eligible for CEs, but eligible for 1 hour C-ATM renewal
- Price: free
This webinar walks you through the history of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”), its substance use disorder information counterpart 42 C.F.R. Part 2, and the federal government’s recent attempt to converge these federal privacy rules after 50 years of silence.
C-ATM Course 12: The Inevitable Implosion of Healthcare Privacy
- Date Recorded: May 2, 2023
- Presenters: Harry Nelson and Adella Katz
- CE: not eligible for CEs, but eligible for 1 hour C-ATM renewal
- Price: free
This webinar introduces the audience to the history of healthcare privacy law and regulation in the United States.
Webinar: Understanding Certemy’s Compliance Management Software
- Date Recorded: February 21, 2023
- Presenter: Anthony Warn and Mary Alice Olsang
- CE: not eligible for CEs
- Price: free
Certemy’s Compliance Management Software is helping organizations in many ways. See how it can help you.
Webinar: Advocacy Year in Review 2022
- Date Recorded: December 6, 2022
- Presenter: Andrew Kessler
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: free (CE access is $25)
This one-hour CE webinar goes over the major advocacy updates from 2022. We cover funding, COVID, and more, and discuss how that will advance our policies for the year ahead.
Webinar: Building an Outbound Referral Department: How to Better Serve Patients & Your Business
- Date Recorded: October 4, 2022
- Presenter: Jordan Young
- CE: not eligible for CEs (but eligible for C-ATM renewal)
- Price: free (C-ATM access is $25)
Learn the importance of building an outbound referral department. In this webinar, you’ll discover how to build one that will support both patient and organizational needs.
Webinar: Reclaiming the Podium: Making SUD Policy a Priority Once Again
- Date Recorded: May 10, 2022
- Presenter: Andrew Kessler
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: free (CE access is $25)
This one-hour CE event will examine how Congress is addressing SUD prevention, treatment, and recovery.
Webinar: 2021 Advocacy Update: Moving on from COVID
- Date Recorded: July 27, 2021
- Presenter: Andrew Kessler
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: free (CE access is $25, and free to BHAP members)
This one-hour CE webinar will give participants an update as to advocacy efforts affecting the behavioral health industry. As the COVID emergency eases, we deal with how to advance our policy priorities.
Webinar: Finding Your Dream Job or Candidate in Behavioral Health
- Date Recorded: July 22, 2021
- Presenters: Jordan Young and Jamie Vance
- CE: this webinar is not eligible for CEUs
- Price: free
The job search can be tough — no matter if you need a job or have one to fill. This webinar is for both sides. For those looking, you’ll learn best practices for evaluating a job opportunity in behavioral health. For those hiring, you’ll learn how to attract and hire ideal candidates.
Webinar: Revenue Cycle Management Demystified
- Date Recorded: March 24, 2021
- Presenters: Peter Walstrom
- CE: this webinar is not eligible for CEUs
- Price: free
Challenge your assumptions about your own billing. This webinar gives you the tools to better understand, evaluate, and manage your revenue cycle, especially the portion paid by medical insurance. This includes an overall understanding of the third-party payor system, a detailed view into the revenue cycle process, including in-house and outsourced scenarios.
Webinar: Advocacy in 2021: Something Old, Something New
- Date Recorded: February 2, 2021
- Presenters: Andrew Kessler
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: free (CE access is $25, and free to BHAP members)
A new White House administration and a narrowly (yet sharply) divided Congress will make for new opportunities in Washington, but also present challenges. This webinar will examine the top priorities for SUD prevention, treatment, and recovery advocacy, while explaining what our expectations for progress should be.
Webinar: Successfully Managing A Remote Workforce
- Date Recorded: August 26, 2020
- Presenters: Ashley Loeb Blassingame
- Price: free
This webinar addresses and give recommendations surrounding best practices to help successfully manage a workforce that has moved from in-office to remote work due to the recent business model changes set into motion by the recent pandemic. Attendees will gain a deeper knowledge of how to make simple, yet significant shifts in their team’s workday structure to achieve greater success in communication, engagement, and output.
Webinar: Preparing to Sell Your Business: Compliance Issues That Will Affect Your Value
- Date Recorded: June 10, 2020
- Presenters: Nick Merkin
- Price: free
Whether you’re a buyer or seller of an addiction treatment organization, the effectiveness of your compliance infrastructure will be a major driver of the price of the transaction. Join us to learn more about some of the unique features of the behavioral health M&A world and how to approach some of the healthcare-specific focus areas that underlie these deals. Learn practical approaches to compliance elements that will drive value pre- and post-closing.
Webinar: Establishing A Culture of Data Driven Decisions
- Date Recorded: May 19, 2020
- Presenters: Derek Daley and Kristen Francom
- Price: free
Learn how to successfully create an environment of gathering outcome data within your program. Derek Daley, founder of Legacy Outdoor Adventure and Juniper Canyon Recovery Center for Women, has successfully been gathering outcomes data for his programs for over eight years. Kristen Francom represents OutcomeTools from BestNotes. OutcomeTools has pioneered tracking outcomes for behavioral health and addiction treatment programs for the last 15 years.
Webinar: Telehealth Updates and Best Practices Amid COVID-19
- Date Recorded: April 28, 2020
- Presenter: Kristina Sherry
- Price: free
This webinar explores the shifting telehealth landscape amid COVID-19, which the World Health Organization characterized as a pandemic and which the United States declared a public health emergency that has prompted the need for greater flexibility in health care and enhanced access to providers.
Webinar: Help Us Help You Get Paid: Ten Things You Can Start Doing Today to Improve Your Commercial Reimbursement Success
- Date Recorded: April 21, 2020
- Presenters: John A. Mills and Zachary Rothenberg
- Price: free
This presentation provides a “Top Ten List” of concrete strategies, tools, and approaches that attendees can implement right away to maximize reimbursement for services rendered, whether to polish the books in anticipation of a transaction or simply to generate additional cash flow going forward.
Webinar: COVID-19 Relief Package and its Impact on Behavioral Health
- Date Recorded: April 1, 2020
- Presenter: Andrew Kessler
- Price: free
The most recent legislation aimed at relief for the American economy due to the impact of COVID 19 was a complex piece of legislation that will allocate $2.2 trillion to individuals, corporations, and government agencies. This webinar examines the impact on behavioral health services, the mechanisms for relief, and whether future legislation will be developed.
Webinar: Impact of COVID-19 on Behavioral Health Industry: News and Views You Can Use
- Date Recorded: March 26, 2020
- Presenter: Balch & Bingham
- Price: free
This webinar presented a panel discussion from experts across their practice areas on the impact of COVID-19, how response efforts affect all industries, and practical considerations affecting the behavioral health industry.
Webinar: The SUPPORT Act: Past and Present. Is it the Future?
- Date Recorded: March 11, 2020
- Presenter: Andrew Kessler
- Price: free
Much effort went into the creation and passage of the SUPPORT Act of 2018, which was meant to greatly improve the nation’s response to the opioid epidemic. Now that we are a year and a half removed from its passage, and have gone through an entire budget cycle to determine which of its pilot programs will be funded, this webinar will examine how much of the legislation has become reality, and to what extent.
Webinar: Preparing to Sell Your Behavioral Health Program and What to Expect in the Process
- Date Recorded: February 19, 2020
- Presenters: Hillel Kamionski and Harry Nelson
- Price: free
Selling your behavioral health program can be complicated, frustrating, confusing, and tremendously rewarding. Whether selling the operation, the assets, and/or the property, this webinar will teach you how to prepare for the process, what to watch out for, what areas to avoid, what areas to concentrate on, and how to help the process go smoothly.
Webinar: 2019 Advocacy Year in Review
- Date Recorded: December 18, 2019
- Presenter: Andrew Kessler
- Price: free
Join us for a webinar that will take a look back at policy advances (and setbacks) in 2019 and set the table for our goals in 2020 and beyond. As the federal government continues to address the opioid epidemic, there remains a multitude of other issues that impact treatment providers and the SUD recovery community. This webinar will examine changes in rules, regulations, and perhaps most importantly, funding, as we look at where we’ve been in order to better determine where we are going!
Webinar: Office-Based Opioid Treatment: What You Need to Know
- Date Recorded: April 4, 2019
- Presenters: David Shillcutt and Kristina Sherry
- Price: free
This webinar examines provider capacity issues for medication assisted treatment, the opportunities and challenges of telemedicine for addiction services, and the expansion of innovative service delivery networks including the “Hub and Spoke” system and related models.
Webinar: Marketing Best Practices in Light of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act
- Date Recorded: March 7, 2019
- Presenters: Kathryn F. Edgerton and Anjali N.C. Downs
- Price: free
This webinar discusses the current state of SUD-related marketing activities, helping you understand how to effectively market without placing your organization in legal jeopardy.
Webinar: How the Opioid Crisis and the SUPPORT Act Created a New Enforcement Reality
- Date Recorded: February 7, 2019
- Presenters: Richard W. Westling and Katherine Bowles
- Price: free
During 2018, the Department of Justice dedicated additional enforcement resources to address the opioid crisis. This webinar addresses the questions that many providers have about these efforts and developments.
Webinar: Unpacking the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act
- Date Recorded: January 10, 2019
- Presenters: Harry Nelson and Paul Gilbert
- Price: free
This webinar will highlight important parts of the new SUPPORT Act as it pertains to SUD treatment providers and how the law will potentially impact profitability and treatment offerings.
Webinar: Simultaneously Building a Strong Relationship with Commercial Insurance Payors and Differentiating Your Treatment Program: Infinity Behavioral IBCN Certificate of Compliance
- Date Recorded: January 9, 2019
- Presenter: Eloy Paez, Maximilian Sirianni, and Andrew Martin
- Price: free
Getting reimbursements from commercial insurance companies can be challenging, especially in the current environment. The treatment provider needs every advantage to maximize reimbursement rates, be paid in a timely fashion, and reduce claim denials. This webinar will inform you about the Infinity Behavioral Healthcare IBCN certificate, which is designed to help with all of these challenges.
Webinar: Is Your Organization Ready for the Next Steps in Drug Medi-Cal’s ODS Waiver?
- Date Recorded: December 6, 2018
- Presenters: Kathryn F. Edgerton and Kevin J. Malone
- Price: free
With more than one-third of all Californians covered by Medi-Cal, the need to expand access to a fuller continuum of substance use disorder care has become mission critical. This webinar addresses the opportunities and challenges reflected in the rollout of Medi-Cal’s ODS.
Webinar: Mystified by MAT? Navigating the Changing Regulatory Landscape
- Date Recorded: November 1, 2018
- Presenters: Francesca R. Ozinal and Andrew Martin
- Price: free
This webinar will review key licensing and operational issues concerning the various types of MAT, including buprenorphine, naltrexone, and methadone, as well as misperceptions and key compliance issues in instituting MAT.
Webinar: SUD Treatment Provider Boot Camp — 10 Things You Need to Know to Succeed in Behavioral Health
- Date Recorded: October 21, 2018
- Presenter: Harry Nelson
- Price: free
This webinar presents an overview of behavioral healthcare opportunities as well as a list of the top 10 things that substance use treatment providers must know in order to succeed.
Webinar: How to Avoid Getting Wiped Out by the Wave of Commercial Payor Behavioral Health Audits
- Date Recorded: October 4, 2018
- Presenters: Paul Gilbert and John Mills
- Price: free
This webinar examines the most common issues arising in payor audits (including medical necessity; patient financial responsibility; and other issues asserted to constitute fraud, waste, or abuse) and the common arguments used as grounds for the nonpayment or recoupment of fees by insurers.
Webinar: Is Your Organization At Risk for Patient Brokering? Preparing for SB1228 and Impeding Changes in California’s Regulation of Addiction Treatment Marketing
- Date Recorded: September 6, 2018
- Presenters: Harry Nelson and Paul Gilbert
- Price: free
This webinar examines the implications of SB1228 and its impending changes to the rules governing marketing practices in residential and outpatient treatment, as well as sober living recovery residences. Also addressed will be problematic current practices and the future of compliant marketing relationships.
Webinar: Improve Your Bottom Line by Proving How Effective Your Treatment Is
- Date Recorded: April 4, 2018
- Presenter: Joanna Conti
- Price: free
Is your program getting squeezed by declining payer reimbursements and higher healthcare plan deductibles? Break out of the race for survival by proving how effective your program is on the metric that matters most -– how many of your patients are in active recovery one-year post-treatment? Strong results will allow you to attract more clients, negotiate higher reimbursement rates and take advantage of exciting value-based contracting opportunities.
Webinar: Easily Comply with the Joint Commission’s New Outcome Measures Standard
- Date Recorded: September 26, 2017
- Presenters: Joanna Conti
- Price: free
This webinar discusses how to choose the best measures to monitor for your clients, make your system easy for your clinical staff to use, and reduce the staff time required to generate real-time data and aggregated results.
Webinar: C-CARA — Changing Policies, Laws, and Regulations in the Addiction Treatment Industry
- Date Recorded: August 10, 2017
- Presenters:Pete Nielsen
- Price: free
This webinar is a great opportunity for managers, directors, administrators, and C-Suite professionals to learn more about the powerful impact of C-CARA on major issues in our industry, including patient brokering, payment reform, capacity, and workforce.
Webinar: The Right and Wrong Ways to Market Your Addiction Treatment Program
- Date Recorded: December 14, 2016
- Presenters: Harry Nelson
- Price: free
Learn about marketing practices that are being investigated, the laws that apply, and how to avoid deceptive marketing practices.
Webinar: History of Addiction Treatment and Licensure, Certification, and Accreditation
- Date Recorded: December 14, 2016
- Presenters: Harry Nelson
- Price: free
Harry Nelson, managing partner of Nelson Hardiman and founder of BHAP, takes us through the history of residential alcohol and drug rehabilitation programs and licensure requirements.
Webinar: Florida Model in California? The Do’s, the Don’ts, and the Other
- Date Recorded: December 14, 2016
- Presenters: Harry Nelson and Dave Sheridan
- Price: free
The “Florida Model” — the practice of combining unlicensed sober living with outpatient programs — has proliferated in California, even over the objections of regulators that the combination of these services violates California law. What does the law actually provide? When is it a problem to integrate unlicensed sober living with outpatient addiction treatment? Will we see legislative solutions to clarify or limit these practices? This website will clarify one of the most confusing topics in California and elsewhere.
Webinar: The Intersection of Practice of Medicine and Drug Rehab: Navigating Changing Laws
- Date Recorded: September 7, 2016
- Presenters: Harry Nelson
- Price: free
The Stone Act (AB 848) provides a critical CPOM exception allowing for intervention overlap in certain medical services. Its very existence acknowledges that, in particular circumstances and for specific reasons, the collaboration between physician and treatment program protects the patient more than separation does. This webinar delves into this important exception to California’s corporate practice of medicine doctrine.
Webinar: The Practice of Medicine and Social Model Alcohol and Drug Programs
- Date Recorded: July 6, 2016
- Presenters: Harry Nelson
- Price: free
How do addiction treatment facilities operate safely with physician oversight despite the byzantine laws prohibiting them from working with doctors?
Webinar: Land Use and Zoning Issues for Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities
- Date Recorded: June 23, 2016
- Presenters: Harry Nelson
- Price: free
In this webinar, you will learn more about recent legislative trends in addiction treatment, zoning restrictions, and strategies for the future.
Webinar: Insurance Billing and Reimbursement Complications Within the Addiction Recovery Industry
- Date Recorded: May 26, 2016
- Presenters: Harry Nelson and Kathryn Edgerton
- Price: free
This webinar covers the key issues insurance companies are raising to demand recoupment of fees from substance abuse treatment programs and what companies can do.
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