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Webinar: The Shifting SUD Policy Landscape
- Date Recorded: May 31, 2023
- Presenters: Andrew Kessler
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $25.00 for CE access (Members receive CE for free)
2023 has brought with it a shift in the SUD policy landscape. Learn more about NBHAP’s advocacy work and what’s been happening in this CE-based webinar.
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: SUD Patient Records & Changing Federal Confidentiality Regulations
- Date Recorded: May 17, 2023
- Presenters: Lee Dalphonse
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive webinar for free)
This CE-based webinar will provide participants with a summative review of the changes to 42 CFR Part 2 regulations, with a special emphasis on how the recent changes both align with and differ from other related federal privacy regulations (HIPAA, the HITECH Act, and the CARES Act).
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: Beyond Sobriety: How the Recovery Capital Index Supports Clients, Practitioners and Organizational Outcomes
- Date Recorded: February 14, 2023
- Presenters: David Whitesock
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive webinar for free)
Learn about the Recovery Capital Index (RCI) and how it is delivered in this CE-based webinar.
Webinar: Being “SMART” About Treatment Approaches to Harm Reduction
- Date Recorded: January 10, 2023
- Presenters: Pete Nielsen
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive webinar for free)
This webinar will help participants understand the SMART recovery approach to behavioral change.
Webinar: Maximizing Revenue and Outcomes
- Date Recorded: December 20, 2022
- Presenter: Devon Wayt
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive webinar for free)
While compliance can be measured easily, organizational health cannot. In this CE-based webinar, learn how to maximize outcomes through organizational health, compliance, and performance improvement.
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: Recovery Capital and Emotional Sobriety
- Date Recorded: August 30, 2022
- Presenter: Allen Berger
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: free (CE access is $25)
Recovery capital refers to the amount of internal and external assets a patient has to help them initiate and sustain recovery. This webinar will explore the many dimensions of recovery capital with a special focus on Soberlink and emotional sobriety as two assets that can make a significant impact on initiating and sustaining recovery.
Webinar: EKRA Essentials — What Providers Need to Know
- Date Recorded: August 16, 2022
- Presenters: Harry Nelson
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive webinar for free)
This one-hour CE event will show providers what they need to know about risks, compliance, and enforcement related to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA) and related laws.
Webinar: We Are Marketing Magic: Why Addiction Treatment Marketing is Such a Messy Field and the Solution to a Clear Path
- Date Recorded: July 19, 2022
- Presenter: Glenn Hadley
- CE: not eligible for CEs (but eligible for C-ATM renewal)
- Price: free (C-ATM access is $25)
Join Dreamscape to learn the “Program of Action” that will bring about the solutions to your addiction treatment marketing plan.
Webinar: OMG! What’s Next? The Basics of Disaster Preparedness
- Date Recorded: July 12, 2022
- Presenters: Nick Merkin
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive webinar for free)
Within the world of behavioral health, disasters can be mentally traumatic and physically devastating. In this CE-based webinar, you will learn the basics of disaster preparedness and best practices for implementation within your care settings.
Webinar: Recent Development in the Mental Health Parity Laws: What You Need to Know for Improving Reimbursement
- Date Recorded: May 17, 2022
- Presenter: John Mills and Zachary Rothenberg
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: free (CE access is $25)
In the past several years, there have been significant efforts at both the state and federal level to strengthen mental health parity legislation. This CE-based webinar delves into the most notable existing and prospective legislation, with an emphasis on California’s SB 855.
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: Recovery Resilience vs. Shame and Stigma: Necessary Innovations in Addiction Treatment
- Date Recorded: April 5, 2022
- Presenters: Dr. Bob Weathers
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive webinar for free)
This CE-based webinar will navigate recovery from addiction while addressing barriers like personal shame and cultural stigma. Tying in principles and methods from his recent books on recovery resilience, Dr. Bob Weathers will start with a diagnostic approach, then address resources and limitations inherent in early recovery. Finally, he’ll incorporate cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness strategies, along with the creative process and relational neuroscience, into a more advanced set of resources to aid in a sustained and successful recovery.
Webinar: Around the Horn: Key Legal Topics in Behavioral Health
- Date Recorded: September 14, 2021
- Presenters: Walter Boone, Bea Tolsdorf, Christina Marie Nuñez, and M. Patrick Everman
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive discount)
We take a quick look at various legal topics that are trending in the behavioral health industry. This webinar briefly covers the latest in opioid litigation, reimbursement related to substance use services, defining the work relationship while entering into agreements with employees, and key terms to consider for a successful business structure.
Webinar: Making Addiction Treatment “Smart”
- Date Recorded: August 31, 2021
- Presenters: Adi Jaffe
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive discount)
This webinar focuses on the application of machine learning towards solving some of the limitations of the traditional adoption cycle and its possible incorporation into online and in-person addiction help resources. We provide industry leaders and professionals a deep dive into the application of machine learning to addiction treatment, its potential to facilitate personalized and adaptive recovery, and provide case studies that show this technology’s ability to make treatment smarter, more accessible, and more effective than ever before.
Webinar: Substance Abuse Stigma — The Latest Research, Effects, & Steps to Turn the Tide
- Date Recorded: August 26, 2021
- Presenters: Ashley Loeb Blassingame
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive discount)
While a staggering 20.4 million Americans ages 12 and older have a substance use disorder (SUD), only 4.2 million receive treatment. Why? A good portion of the answer lies somewhere in the stigma associated with substance abuse. This webinar addresses the topic of substance abuse stigma head on. Attendees will walk away understanding SUD, the stigma associated with it, the impact stigma can have on individuals with SUDs, and how the general public and clinicians can help reduce stigma.
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: Accreditation – The First Step to a Safer Organization
- Date Recorded: June 8, 2021
- Presenters: Yvonne Rockwood
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive discount)
The Joint Commission envisions a future of zero harm in behavioral health and human services and is committed to making that a reality. This webinar explores and defines a culture of safety and high reliability and its importance in moving toward zero harm. It will discuss how to assess and measure your organization’s safety culture and steps to achieve a culture of safety.
Webinar: Buddhism and 12 Steps: Part 4 — Joy & Equanimity
- Date Recorded: May 5, 2021
- Presenters: Chris McDuffie
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive discount)
Buddhism and the 12 Step programs are two powerful spiritual pathways that help end suffering. Practicing spirituality is critical for those in recovery from co-occurring disorders. Part 4 informs counselors and therapists how to use both sets of teachings to help their clients manage greed, ill will, and lack of insight.
Webinar: Overcoming Stress & Anxiety
- Date Recorded: April 13, 2021
- Presenters: Dr. Gregory Williams
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive discount)
Stress and anxiety have been intensified over the past year to the highest level in our society and everyone needs a break to realize what is happening in our bodies. This workshop will present an overview of stress and anxiety, how to recognize it coming on, and how to overcome it before it takes control of you.
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: Got Integrity? Ethical Leadership in Addiction Treatment
- Date Recorded: March 18, 2021
- Presenters: Jen Carvalho
- CE: this webinar is eligible for 3 CEs
- Price: $150.00 (Members receive discount)
In this training, our presenter outlines the SUD leader’s responsibility to provide guidance for an individual, an organization, or an industry in a way that respects those that we serve.
Webinar: Empowering Leaders to Lead Effectively Through Discovering Their True Leadership Potential
- Date Recorded: March 12, 2021
- Presenter: Kristina Padilla
- CE: this webinar is eligible for 2 CEs
- Price: $100.00 (Members receive discount)
As a leader, how do you evolve and provide better leadership and support to your team? Join us for this webinar that will focus on learning and networking skills for managers of all levels.
Webinar: Buddhism and 12 Steps: Part 3 — Compassion
- Date Recorded: March 3, 2021
- Presenters: Chris McDuffie
- CE: this webinar is eligible for 1 CEs
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive discount)
Buddhism and the 12 Step programs are two powerful spiritual pathways that help end suffering. Practicing spirituality is critical for those in recovery from co-occurring disorders. Part 3 will help inform counselors and therapist how to use both sets of teachings to help their clients.
Webinar: Synergize Your Marketing & Billing: How Sharing Data Maximizes Your Tactical and Strategic Advantages
- Date Recorded: February 11, 2021
- Presenters: Dan Gemp and Greg Keilin
- CE: this webinar is not eligible for CEUs
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive discount)
Marketing and billing hold the keys of success for each other. This webinar can help you break down the barriers and make that happen.
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: LGBT Persons & Substance Use Disorders: Special Considerations for Treatment Providers
- Date Recorded: January 25, 2021
- Presenters: Dr. Patrick Lockwood
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive discount)
This one-hour event gives practitioners and treatment professionals an up-to-date understanding of the special challenges faced by LGBT persons with substance use disorders (SUDs). First, we will explore the data on substance use disorders (SUDS) in the LGBT community. Second, we will discuss specific cultural/stressor issues associated with the community. Finally, a brief overview of evidence-based treatments for LGBT persons with SUDs.
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: The Impact of Toxic Stress
- Date Recorded: July 22, 2020
- Presenters: Dr. Gregory Williams
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive discount)
This webinar gives an in-depth look at toxic stress and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) and the research that has been done. The research shows the impact of toxic stress on the development of the brain in children and how to build resiliency in children to help overcome that trauma.
Webinar: The New Normal: Avoiding Trouble in Addiction Treatment and Behavioral Health Marketing
- Date Recorded: July 9, 2020
- Presenters: Harry Nelson
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
As enforcement of new federal and state laws continues to expand alongside payor efforts to combat abusive practices, a “New Normal” is emerging in addiction treatment and behavioral health. This webinar will focus on how marketing enforcement continues to evolve, including examples of recent local, state, and federal investigative practices and prosecution.
Webinar: Buddhism and 12 Steps: Part 2 — Spirituality
- Date Recorded: June 24, 2020
- Presenters: Chris McDuffie
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive discount)
Buddhism and the 12 Step programs are two powerful spiritual pathways that help end suffering. Practicing spirituality is critical for those in recovery from co-occurring disorders. In Part II, we continue on the synergistic commonalities between these two powerful pathways for recovery and relapse prevention.
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: The Uninvited Guests — Trauma, Mental Health and Addiction
- Date Recorded: May 13, 2020
- Presenter: Dr. Louise Stanger
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This webinar describes and demonstrates through case study the interrelatedness of trauma, substance abuse, and mental health. Together, we will explore resiliency as a personal act of defiance, emotional elasticity and recovery as keystones to recovery. Evidence based treatment options will be given as ways to mend the wounded heart.
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: Providing Trauma Sensitive Affirmative Services for LGBTQ Survivors of Sexual Assault
- Date Recorded: April 2, 2020
- Presenter: Philip T. McCabe
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and LGBTQ people are at a greater risk for sexual assault. This webinar will educate on various aspects of interpersonal violence along with other awareness of other cultural aspects including but not limited to race, ethnicity, religion, abilities, socio-economics, sexual orientation, gender expression and gender identity.
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: Do You Know Who Owns Your Patient Data? The Dark Side of Commercializing Patient Data
- Date Recorded: March 17, 2020
- Presenters: Walter Boone and Matt Sitton
- Price: free
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
Who owns patient data? The answer is not as simple as you think, and the answer matters to you, the treatment provider. Please join us as we discuss the role of de-identified data in the behavioral healthcare 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: Understanding Addiction Treatment Marketing for CEOs
- Date Recorded: February 12, 2020
- Presenter: Nick Jaworski
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This webinar will give you the high level marketing overview so you have a strategic grasp of the important differences between SEO, AdWords, Business Development, Facebook, TV, etc. It also highlights the tracking and results you need to be looking for to ensure the team is on track in your addiction treatment marketing.
Webinar: Buddhism and 12 Steps (series)
- Date Recorded: 2020 and 2021
- Organized by: Chris McDuffie
Price: $50 each
Learn how to use Buddhism and the 12 Step programs together in this series.
Webinar: Buddhism and 12 Steps: Part 1 — Spiritual Pathways for Relapse Prevention
- Date Recorded: January 28, 2020
- Presenters: Chris McDuffie
- CE: eligible for 1 CE
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive discount)
Buddhism and the 12 Step programs are two powerful spiritual pathways that help end suffering. Practicing spirituality is critical for those in recovery from co-occurring disorders. This webinar will introduce loved ones, therapists, and those in recovery to the key components of Buddhism and 12 Step recovery.
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: Conference Blueprint: Strategies for Event Success
- Date Recorded: December 10, 2019
- Presenter: Jordan Young
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
Facilities are spending thousands of dollars using Google ad words, months trying to create a productive business development team, and large amounts of time traveling for meetings with potential referral sources. But conferences are the quickest and most cost effective way to give your census a boost, when done right.
Webinar: MAT and Recovery Housing: Are They Compatible?
- Date Recorded: September 11, 2019
- Presenter: Dave Sheridan
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
Fueled by our opioid crisis, several medications for opioid use disorder are being widely prescribed. Research suggests that these are effective in improving recovery outcomes, but their use is controversial in segments of the treatment and recovery community. This webinar addresses the evidence, sources of resistance, and best practices for supporting individuals in recovery housing who are prescribed these medications.
Webinar: The Documentation of Medical Necessity: Why It Matters
- Date Recorded: July 31, 2019
- Presenter: Elizabeth Irias and Nick Merkin
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This fast-paced webinar about medical necessity and its legal and financial impact discusses what’s at stake when your company’s documentation of medical necessity is inadequate, and reviews strategies about the efficient integration of Medical Necessity into clinical documentation. This dynamic webinar is a great and efficient opportunity for you to learn critical information to help you stay on track legally and improve your Utilization Review outcomes.
Webinar: The Reimbursement Landscape for Autism-Related Treatment Providers
- Date Recorded: July 10, 2019
- Presenters: John Mills and Lisa Montague
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
In this webinar, Nelson Hardiman attorneys John Mills and Lisa Montague will discuss the current status—and likely growth over the next decade—of reimbursement for autism-related therapies, including but not limited to ongoing evolution of current fee-for-service treatments into a value-based model.
Webinar: Rising Above the Crowd: How Proactive PR Drives Center Growth
- Date Recorded: June 13, 2019
- Presenter: Nick Jaworski
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
The addiction treatment space continues to be beset by negative press. Whether your program participated in some of the shadier practices brought to light or not, this press has tainted the entire field. This training will give you actionable strategies so that you’re not lumped into the crowd.
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: Ethics in a Digital Age
- Date Recorded: February 27, 2019
- Presenter: Dr. Louise Stanger
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This webinar will discuss the rules and regulations governing digital communications, the use of social media, telepsychology, and crossing state lines as a licensed provider.
Webinar: California AB 3162: How it Will Impact Your SUD Treatment Agency
- Date Recorded: February 19, 2019
- Presenter: Harry Nelson and Sherry Daley
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This webinar will outline the critical information every substance use disorder treatment provider in California must know in order to prepare for the enforcement of California Assembly Bill 3162.
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: How the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act Will Impact Your SUD Treatment Business
- Date Recorded: December 13, 2018
- Presenter: Harry Nelson and Andrew Martin
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This webinar will inform you on the most important parts of the new law as it pertains to SUD treatment providers and how the law will potentially impact profitability and treatment offerings. This includes Section 8122 which is aimed at eliminating kickbacks in the recovery industry by imposing criminal penalties, Section 3232 which requires a special registration for telemedicine services for patients that lack access to an in-person specialist, and Section 5052 which partially repeals the restrictions for “Institutions for Mental Disease” allowing Medicare/Medicaid providers more than 16 beds to treat mental health and SUDs.
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: SUD Treatment Provider Boot Camp — Designing Your Program: Thinking Strategically
- Date Recorded: October 21, 2018
- Presenter: Andrew Martin
- Price: $30.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This webinar details a proven method for thinking and planning strategically while simultaneously getting the entire leadership team on the same page and accountable for performance. Whether starting up a new business, or investing in the future of an existing business, this webinar is applicable.
Webinar: SUD Treatment Provider Boot Camp — Licensing and Certification: What Do You Need to Provide Services
- Date Recorded: October 21, 2018
- Presenter: Kathryn F. Edgerton
- Price: $30.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
Determining which type of licensure or certification can be a daunting task, especially in restrictive states such as California, and this webinar explains the process and decision points needed to establish the appropriate path.
Webinar: SUD Treatment Provider Boot Camp — The Team
- Date Recorded: October 21, 2018
- Presenter: Kristina Sherry & Andrew Martin
- Price: $30.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This webinar examines the details of managing relationships with employees, contractors, and other stakeholders in a substance use disorder treatment program.
Webinar: SUD Treatment Provider Boot Camp — The Space
- Date Recorded: October 21, 2018
- Presenter: Andrew Martin
- Price: $35.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
An overview of design, access, function, compliance, facility management, and security are presented in this webinar.
Webinar: SUD Treatment Provider Boot Camp — Risk Management
- Date Recorded: October 21, 2018
- Presenter: Zachary Rothenberg
- Price: $45.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This webinar discusses various ways to approach the most impactful risk exposures and provides insight into how risk management systems can work to safeguard the business, its employees, and its customers.
Webinar: SUD Treatment Provider Boot Camp — The Books
- Date Recorded: October 21, 2018
- Presenter: Andrew Martin
- Price: $25.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This webinar discusses various ways to approach the most impactful risk exposures and provides insight into how risk management systems can work to safeguard the business, its employees, and its customers.
Webinar: SUD Treatment Provider Boot Camp — Reimbursement
- Date Recorded: October 21, 2018
- Presenter: John Mills
- Price: $65.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This webinar highlights a comprehensive set of best practices for compliance with reimbursement rules as well as avoiding common pitfalls with collection of payment.
Webinar: SUD Treatment Provider Boot Camp — Operational Compliance Issues
- Date Recorded: October 21, 2018
- Presenter: Nick Merkin
- Price: $45.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This webinar provides the necessary information and best practices for SUD treatment providers to insure compliance.
Webinar: SUD Treatment Provider Boot Camp — Marketing
- Date Recorded: October 21, 2018
- Presenter: Andrew Martin
- Price: $30.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This webinar will outline the best practices, regulations, and laws surround healthcare marketing as well as ethical and effective marketing practices within the SUD treatment industry.
Webinar: SUD Treatment Provider Boot Camp — The Entity
- Date Recorded: October 21, 2018
- Presenter: Harry Nelson
- Price: $65.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This webinar provides comprehensive information about creating an entity.
Webinar: SUD Treatment Provider Boot Camp (series)
- Date Recorded: October 21, 2018
- Presenters: Harry Nelson, Andrew Martin, Kathryn F. Edgerton, Kristina Sherry, Zachary Rothenberg, John Mills, & Nick Merkin
- Price: $360.00 for the full series (Members receive 15% discount)
This Boot Camp webinar series is designed specifically to address the strategic, regulatory, operational, and marketing concerns associated with operating a substance use disorder treatment program in an ethical and prudent manner.
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: Trends in Behavioral Health Series
- Date Recorded: Fall 2018 and Spring 2019
- Organized by: Epstein Becker Green, Nelson Hardiman, and Behavioral Health Association of Providers
Price: free
This was part of a partnership between Behavioral Health Association of Providers, Epstein Becker Green, and Nelson Hardiman: offering a winter / spring webinar series that addressed topics highlighting the accelerating legal and policy issues for the behavioral health industry.
Webinar: Managing Employees from Start to Finish
- Date Recorded: July 26, 2018
- Presenter: Milan Roy
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
Great employees are your number one asset! They help distinguish your company from competitors. Great employees help to attract and retain clients. They help to build your brand. Great employees also allow you to properly focus your efforts on what is really important. In short, Great employees are “Game Changers” for your business. There will always be employee issues and they need to be properly addressed from an HR and legal standpoint. This webinar provides effective tools to hire, develop and manage your employees from beginning to end.
Webinar: National Opioid Litigation — Current Status and Why Treatment Centers Must Be Involved
- Date Recorded: July 11, 2018
- Presenters: Walter Boone and T. Roe Frazer II
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This webinar will outline the claims in the opioid litigation, the players, the current status of the litigation, and the reasons why the treatment industry should be involved.
Webinar: The Value of HIPAA Compliance
- Date Recorded: June 19, 2018
- Presenter: David Kay
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This webinar discusses what is and isn’t required for HIPAA compliance.
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: How to Identify and Reduce Your Legal and Compliance Risk: Part IV — Business Risk
- Date Recorded: January 29, 2018
- Presenters: Walter H. Boone and Scott Andress
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
In Part IV of this series on legal and compliance risk, Balch & Bingham LLP partners Walter Boone and Scott Andress outline the risks treatment centers face in the business and real estate arena.
Webinar: The Come Back Kid — Ethics in Addiction Treatment
- Date Recorded: December 12, 2017
- Presenters: Dr. Louise Stanger
- Price: free
Dr. Louise Stanger discusses the delivery of ethical treatment in the behavioral healthcare industry and the roles of behavioral healthcare professionals. Exploring the current state of ethics, Dr. Stanger revisits the meaning of ethics, what it means to your organization, what it means to you as an individual, and what it means to the consumer.
Webinar: How to Identify and Reduce Your Legal and Compliance Risk: Part III — Labor and Employment Risk
- Date Recorded: November 14, 2017
- Presenters: Walter H. Boone and Christy Crockett White
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
In Part III of this series, Balch & Bingham LLP partners Walter Boone and Christy White outline the risks treatment centers face in the labor and employment arena.
Webinar: How to Identify and Reduce Your Legal and Compliance Risk: Part II — Compliance Risk
- Date Recorded: October 16, 2017
- Presenters: Walter H. Boone and Chris Kimble
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
In Part II of this series, Balch & Bingham LLP partners Walter Boone and Chris Kimble outline statutory and regulatory risk in three areas – state statutes and regulations; federal privacy and confidentiality statutes and regulations; and federal and state anti-kickback statutes.
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: The Opioid Crisis, Affordable Care Act, State Initiatives, and National Developments
- Date Recorded: September 14, 2017
- Presenters:Dave Sheridan and Jason Howell
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
This webinar covers how recovery housing has grown and changed in recent years to become a significant element in the addiction treatment and recovery support field. Topics include emerging state regulatory approaches, service coordination models, reimbursement issues, and other factors that have contributed to the changing landscape for residential addiction and recovery services.
Webinar: How to Identify and Reduce Your Legal and Compliance Risk: Part I -– Payment Risk
- Date Recorded: August 29, 2017
- Presenters: Walter H. Boone
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
In Part I of this series, Balch & Bingham LLP partner Walter Boone provides basic information about how to increase your ability to get paid, and reduce the likelihood of payment delay, audits, or worse, claims by insurers for recoupment. This webinar begins with a general overview of the rules for how to get paid and where you find those rules.
Webinar: How to Identify and Reduce Your Legal and Compliance Risk (series)
- Dates Recorded: August 29, 2017; October 16, 2017; November 14, 2017; January 29, 2018
- Presenters: Walter H. Boone, Scott Andress, Christy Crockett White, and Chris Kimble
- Price: $175.00 for the full series (Members receive 15% discount)
This Boot Camp webinar series is designed specifically to address the strategic, regulatory, operational, and marketing concerns associated with operating a substance use disorder treatment program in an ethical and prudent manner.
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: UDT: Urine Drug Testing — Understanding the Compliance Minefield
- Date Recorded: November 23, 2016
- Presenter: Harry Nelson
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
There are certain components of running an addiction treatment facility that might seem so straightforward, self-explanatory, and uncomplicated that you don’t give them a second thought. Urine drug testing (UDT) is likely one of those. Despite the layers of complexity, this webinar will help show what you need to in order to steer clear of a regulatory nightmare down the road.
Webinar: Managing Crisis Part 2: Responding to Government Encounters and Action
- Date Recorded: October 26, 2016
- Presenter: Harry Nelson
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
In the second part of this two-part webinar series on managing crisis, you will learn how to prepare your staff (and yourself) for the event of a government investigation so that the outcome doesn’t bring unnecessary harm to your business. This webinar covers a wide spectrum of facility-authority interactions, from subpoenas to search warrants and much in between.
Webinar: Managing Crisis Part 1: Avoiding Patient Overdoses, Suicides, and Deaths
- Date Recorded: October 12, 2016
- Presenter: Harry Nelson
- Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)
In the first of this two-part webinar series on managing crisis, you learn about issues in patient assessment prior to intake, problems that emerge in the course of treatment, client elopement, and discharge.
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.
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