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Be continuity of care between inpatient and outpatient facilities remains a challenge. Current hospital payments assume that hospitals shall actively in discharge and transition to outpatient clinics and ambulatory care providers support the payments for support in this process as redundant involved. This undermines the ability of providers of mental health services “to its customers a smooth transition between service settings.

Meet certification requirements for radio programs and mental health professionals created new challenges. The community behavioral professionals, who can not meet the standards for the accreditation of private insurers (eg, 3 years after approval of the experience). Community providers have this replaced by contractual agreements, in which the quality assurance and monitoring requirements in the standards for accreditation, approached. Services are under a monitoring protocol, in which the identifier national provider of professional supervision will be charged.

In addition, some programs offer services that rely on a combination of funding sources such as county, state and private insurers. In these cases, counties, customers want to limit access to private insurance “in these programs, because part of the entire program is covered by the community.

Impact of the cuts the state budget on mental health -

In a dramatic shift that could have foreseen the dilemmas faced by other states, Minnesota Governor vetoed funding for the program on the state of psychiatric care. The Parliament would have extended the program for several months, was negotiated a compromise to retain elements of the cover for the population of the state mental health -. “Coordinated Systems of Care” funds compensated hospital care, medical / pharmaceutical industry and in the system, a program paid for the hospital-centered a fixed amount to about 40% of the population of the state of mental illness, who decided to take cover. Since there is no reimbursement for outpatient hospital and all non-service providers and consumers are now crawling to seek review of the disability or enroll in a Medicare-type coverage ends after six months of mental health insurance coverage deadline.

Although these reductions only by first June 2010 will effectively be expected to lead to an increased burden on health systems and hospitals without municipal providers of safety nets.

How to minimize the impact of budget cuts on mental health?

Many member organizations representing non-profit community mental health and other service providers in Minnesota are in coalition with groups of National Mental Health Advocacy worked with mental health related changes in health programs. First, lobbying at the state parliament in favor of promoting the expansion of Medicaid beginning in additional federal funds (as obtained in national health care reform vote is concentrated). Unfortunately, this is proven to be politically untenable in the immediate future, however, was a measure adopted in order to use the governor of the executive authority to expand Medicaid for patients with mental disorders.

While is actively involved in advocacy are crucial for the community health system, behavioral, mental health, national education and Medicaid members, the assessment of how they can optimize their business practices to this changing reality Budget react. Among other strategies, community service providers in behavioral disturbances are working to develop partnerships with community hospitals to reduce preventable deaths and emergency room visits in order to facilitate the transition from inpatient to outpatient, to support its customers through disability determinations by the process so that they may be eligible for Medicaid as soon as possible, and funds to cover the needs of cost-sharing for mental health and sponsored registered customers that can not be paid.

Contains this two-pronged approach that both the defense and pragmatic business considerations, it is hoped that the community health system performance will be in a position to develop new cost-effective ways to deliver services that will be well positioned to withstand supply changes in funding under the new possibilities provided by the national health initiatives and national health reform.