Web-Assisted Audioconferences 2005 Health Care Series

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November 17
Legislators and Medicare
Prescription Benefit

December 1
School-Based Health Centers:
Trends and Financing

School-Based Health Centers: Trends and Financing

Thursday, December 1, 2005

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This session focused on how school-based health centers fit into the overall health care system including why they are important, services provided, and the populations they serve. Additionally, there was a discussion of the critical trends and key issues around school-based health care today. The conference also focused on the financing of school-based health centers. The discussion will identify the means through which school-based health centers are funded and particularly, how Medicaid enters into this equation.

Speakers:
John Schlitt [SLIDE SHOW] [HANDOUT]
Executive Director, National Assembly on School-Based Health Care

Julia Graham Lear, PhD [SLIDE SHOW] [HANDOUT]
Director, Center for Health and Health Care in Schools

***NCSL's* Web-Assisted Audioconference on

“Legislators and Medicare Prescription Benefit”**

Thursday, November 17, 2005

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Hear the latest from national experts and state innovators on getting Medicare beneficiaries into the plan they need and explaining creative federal and state program features.

Speakers include: Leslie Norwalk, Deputy Administrator, CMS PRESENTATION
Representative Betty Boyd, Colorado PRESENTATION
Donna Folkemer, Director, NCSL Forum for State Health Policy Leadership

For help or more information call (303) 364-7700 x1357 or email: medicare-info@ncsl.org

***NCSL's* Web-Assisted Audioconference on

*“Mental Health Parity: Sound Investment or Budget Buster?”***

Tuesday, November 8, 2005

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This informative web-assisted audioconference took place on November 8, 2005: “Mental Health Parity: Sound Investment or Budget Buster?”

One key barrier to accessing treatment for mental illness is insurance benefit design: because mental illness can be very expensive to treat, insurers often respond to high costs associated with these conditions by imposing mental health benefit restrictions for patients. Due to a growing evidence base for cost-effective and clinically-effective mental health treatment, however, mental health parity—providing equal coverage benefits for both mental and physical health conditions—is emerging as a means to lower long-term health care costs and improve patients’ quality of life. At least 46 states have enacted some type of law addressing mental health coverage, with 25 of those providing for full mental health parity.

State legislators need good data to determine if parity is a sound investment and to answer two important questions: Does parity help individuals access mental health care, and if so, how much more does it cost? This conference will attempt to answer these questions with an expert analysis on the effects of mental health parity on quality of care, access to services and cost after implementation of a mental health parity policy under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program, and a discussion about Washington State’s course of action for becoming the 24^th state to implement full mental health parity in March 2005.

This web-assisted audioconference is funded by a generous grant from the MacArthur Foundation.

Speakers:
Howard Goldman, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine [BIO]

The full evaluation of the mental health and substance abuse parity policy in the Federal Employee
Health Benefits (FEHB) Program is available at http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/parity.htm.

Representative Shay Schual-Berke, M.D., Washington House of Representatives [BIO] [SLIDE SHOW]

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