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Practice Management Insight

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MARK YOUR

CALENDAR

March 13

OHCA Board Meeti= ng

1 p.m.

Oklahoma Health Care Authority

4545 N. Lincoln Blvd., Suite 124<= o:p>

Oklahoma City

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Marc= h 13-14

Jame= s Patterson, ICADC ASI

8 a.m.— 4:30 p.= m.

ODMHSAS Training Cent= er, Shepherd Mall 1-F, 2401 NW 23rd, Oklahoma City

Contact: Cynthia D. C= aligone at (405) 522-8300

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March 18

James Patterson, ICADC= ASAM

8 a.m.— 4:30 p.= m.

ODMHSAS Training Center, Shepherd Mall,= Suite 1-F, 2401 NW 23rd Oklahoma City

Contact: Cynthi= a D. Caligone at (405) 522-8300

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Marc= h 19

Join= t Commission Accredited Opioid Treatment Program

11:30 – noon

Free educational conf= erence call. Call (877) 223-6= 866 to register. If you have questions, contact Megan Marx, associate direc= tor, OTP Project, at mmarx@jointcommission.org.<= /span>

Problem Gambling Prevention =

and Treatment Conference

March 3-4

National Center for Employee Developmen= t, 2701 E. Imhoff Road, Norman

Contact: Cynthia C= aligone 405-522-8300

= Sponsored by the Oklahoma Association for Problem & Compulsive Gambling= and the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services<= o:p>

P= articipants will hear from problem gambling treatment and prevention expert= s through drama, drumming and a variety of presentations on prevention and = treatment strategies. &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = Click= here for conference brochure.=

Plenary speakers

Bo J. Bernhar= d, Ph.D., is Director of Gambling Res= earch at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ International Gaming In= stitute.

Keith S. Whyt= e became the Executive Director = of the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) in October 1998.

Ken Winters, = Ph.D. , is the Director of the Center = for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research, a Professor in the Department of P= sychiatry at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and a Senior Scienti= st with Treatment Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA.

Reece Middlet= on, LADC, CCGC, is a past Vice Chair of the Na= tional Council on Problem Gambling and is Executive Director of the Louisia= na Association on Problem Gambling.

Members ready for APS E= DI

OrionNet Systems notified members in February that = ThinkHealth is ready to handle the new electronic data interchange (EDI) fr= om APS Healthcare and offered steps that centers should follow for a smooth= transition to the batch file transmission process.

It is important that centers take advantage of this new method because APS says = it will be implementing a new fax authorization request form on April 1, 20= 08. However, the new fax form= at will not be available before March 1.&n= bsp;

OrionNet urged all of its members to use the new ED= I transmission.

Screen= ing and Assessment

New ThinkHealth module to be added in M= arch

Clyde W. Wafford, president of OrionNet Systems LLC= , announced the addition of a Screening and Assessment component to ThinkHe= alth Practice Management Desktop 2.0. = ; Wafford said the module would be released to members before the en= d of March.

This decision follows recommendations from the Stat= e of Oklahoma Behavioral Health Collaboratives Documentation Workgroup on t= he elements and fields that should be contained in screening and assessment= documents.

Wafford said the Screening and Assessment module wi= ll be tightly integrated with the other ThinkHealth modules — Staff I= nformation, Patient Management, Prior Authorizations, Scheduling, Activitie= s & Notes, Billing, and Reporting.&nbs= p; That means information entered during screening and assessment wi= ll flow into appropriate modules automatically. Like all other data in the system, it will be password-p= rotected so that only authorized users can access it.

Call 4= 05.286.1674 or email us for more information.