National Council’s 2012 Same Day Access Multistate Initiative Accepting Applications

The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare recently announced they are accepting applications for their Same Day Access Multistate Initiative. This program is a great opportunity for community behavioral health organizations (CBHOs) to create and utilize new policies, procedures and techniques to improve their business processes.

Organizations selected to participate in this initiative will:

• Be given tools to assess and redesign current intake and assessment procedures
• Develop better intake and assessment forms
• Create standardized process flows to better use staff and client time

Applications are due June 6, so get yours in early!

This skills and tools you will develop while participating in this initiative nicely complement the ongoing changes in health reform, which ultimately encourages behavioral health providers to create more standard, quantifiable processes.

Webinar – Easing the Burden of Compliance: Why EHR is the Missing Link

This webinar, hosted by Behavioral Healthcare Magazine and sponsored by Defran Systems, discusses many of the compliance challenges that all human services organizations face, and how EHR technology can help your agency mitigate risk in its operations.

The speakers are Fran Loshin-Turso, President and CEO of Defran Systems, and Daniel Brown, Associate Executive Director of Franziska Racker Centers, a provider of disabilities services based in Ithaca, NY.

If maintaining compliance is a particular difficulty for your organization, it will definitely be worth your time to attend this presentation. Registration is free, and can be done here.

The Journey of a Claim: Optimizing your Revenue Cycle with an Integrated EHR

This week, Behavioral Healthcare Magazine, along with Defran Systems, is hosting a webinar about how implementing EHR best practices can improve your agency’s revenue cycle by:

• Improving your cash flow by reducing denied claims and the age of receivables
• Reducing bad debt
• Reducing the risk of paybacks due to failure to meet documentation requirements

The webinar, which takes place at 1PM ET on Tuesday, June 21st, will feature Fran Loshin-Turso, President and CEO of Defran Systems, and Becky Jensen, VP of Program Evaluation of Beacon Light Behavioral Health Systems.

Click here to sign up.