October 5, 2016
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Advancing Public Policies for People with Mental Illness, Chemical Dependency or Developmental Disabilities
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New Rule Helps Finalize Move to Provide more Medication-Assisted Treatment to People with Opioid Disorders
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), as part of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has issued new reporting requirements for physicians who will be authorized to prescribe the opioid use disorder treatment medication buprenorphine at the new limit of 275 patients. The requirements, published on September 27, 2016 in the
Federal Register, are a key step in increasing access to medication-assisted treatment for opioid-related disorders.
On July 8, 2016, SAMHSA/HHS published a
final rule, "Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders," which allows practitioners who have had a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine for up to 100 patients for a year or more, to now obtain a waiver to treat up to 275 patients.
Practitioners are eligible to obtain the waiver if they have additional credentialing in addiction medicine or addiction psychiatry from a specialty medical board and/or professional society, or practice in a qualified setting as described in the rule. As of this week, 1,665 practitioners have applied for and been granted waivers to prescribe at the increased limit. This rule was accompanied by a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking, which solicited public comment on proposed reporting requirements for practitioners who increase their patient limit to 275. More information about the NPRM can be
found here. Read more
here.
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UPCOMING TRAININGS
MCTAC
MCTAC is offering a second round of
in-person
small business initiative regional forums specifically geared toward smaller agencies that have little to no experience billing Medicaid or managed care.
OTHER TRAININGS
October 27, 2 - 3 pm, Care Transitions Network
November 1, 12 - 1 pm, Psych U.
November 9, 12 - 1 pm, Psych U.
November 9, 2 - 3 pm, Care Transitions Network
November 17, 12 - 1 pm, Psych U.
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OMH Agency Meeting &
Director's & Executive Committee Meeting - In Person
October 17:
10 am - 12 pm (
44 Holland Ave., Albany - 8th Fl.)
1 - 3 pm (
41 State Street, Ste. 505, Albany)
Children & Families Committee
October 25: 11:30 am - 1 pm
GTM Only
Officers & Chairs - Call In
Contact CLMHD for all Call In and Go To Meeting information, 518.462.9422
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The Conference of Local Mental Hygiene Directors advances public policies and awareness for people with mental illness, chemical dependency and developmental disabilities. We are a statewide membership organization that consists of the Commissioner/ Director of each of the state's 57 county mental hygiene departments and the mental hygiene department of the City of New York.
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