Caring for the Most Vulnerable: Medicaid and Mental Health
April 15 – 16, 2005
Meeting Summary
Sponsored by the Center for Mental Health Services in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the MacArthur Foundation.
On April 15th and 16th, 2005, the Forum for State Health Policy Leadership convened a two-day conference in Washington, D.C.: Caring for the Most Vulnerable: Medicaid and Mental Health. State lawmakers, legislative staff and health and human services officials gathered to discuss strategies for the collaboration of Medicaid and mental health resources, with a special focus on children’s mental health services. Presentation topics included the detection of untreated mental health disorders, challenges in and opportunities for providing effective children’s mental health services through Medicaid, maintenance of Medicaid eligibility after institutionalization, issues in cost and utilization of psychotropic drugs and the impending impact of the Medicare Modernization Act on dual eligibles with a mental illness. Below please find links to the slides from the conference sessions:
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Presentation Slides |
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Identifying Unmet Needs for the Young and Old Alike |
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Detecting Serious Emotional Disturbances in Children: Minnesota’s Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Programs
Glenace Edwall, Ph.D., Psy.D, Director of the Children’s Mental Health Division at the Minnesota Department of Human Services |
PowerPoint
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Georgia’s PASRR Program: Evaluation of Nursing Home Residents for Mental Illness
Nell Moton-Kapple, Senior Program Specialist, Georgia Department of Community Health |
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Raymond Crowel, Psy.D., Vice President for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, National Mental Health Association |
PowerPoint |
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Using Medicaid to Fund Comprehensive Children’s Services |
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Importance and Limitations of Evidence-Based Programs in Children’s Mental Health
Heather Ringeisen, Ph.D., Chief of Child and Adolescent Services Research, National Institute of Mental Health |
PowerPoint |
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Medicaid Support of Multisystmemic Therapy (MST)
Joe Boggs, Ph.D., Chief Operations Officer, MST Services |
PowerPoint |
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Providing Mental Health Services in the Child Welfare System
Jan McCarthy, M.S.W., Director of Child Welfare, National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development |
PowerPoint |
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Maintaining Medicaid Eligibility after Institutionalization |
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Providing Mental Health in Juvenile Justice
Vicki Spriggs, M.Ed., Executive Director, Texas Juvenile Probation Commission (TJPC) |
PowerPoint |
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Medicaid Eligibility and Institutions for Mental Disease (IMD)
Eileen Ellis, Principal, Health Management Associates |
PowerPoint |
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Managing Psychotropic Drugs in Medicaid for Children and Adults |
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Children and Psychotropic Medications
Julie Zito, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Psychiatry, University of Maryland, Baltimore |
PowerPoint |
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Medication Management in the New England Partnership
Peggy Leoni, Division of Medicaid and Children’s Health, Boston Regional Office, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services |
PowerPoint |
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Medicare Modernization Act: Dual Eligibles and Mental Health
Andy Hyman, J.D., Director of Government Relations and Legislative Counsel, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors |
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