February 7, 2025
Please join The Partnership for Integrated Care’s Webinar on
The Pediatric Symptom Checklist
Thursday, February 13th, 2025
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
To register for this event, use this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/RsjgNM0PTkiywuQPaIIdww#/registration
Please stay tuned for upcoming dates for additional learning collaborative offerings sponsored by The Partnership for Integrated Care. For technical assistance, please email Konstantin Nadirashvili at knadirashvili@iuany.org.
About the Training
The Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC) is a 35-item parent-report questionnaire designed to identify children and adolescents with difficulties in psychosocial functioning. Its primary purpose is to alert pediatricians at an early point about which children and adolescents would benefit from further assessment.[1] A positive result on the overall scale indicates that the child in question would benefit from further evaluation. It is not a diagnostic tool.[2] The PSC has subscales which measure inner distress and mood, interpersonal relations and behavior, and attention. The PSC is also used in pediatrics and other settings to measure changes in psychosocial functioning over time. Michael Jellinek, MD, created the PSC and has researched it over more than thirty years in collaboration with J. Michael Murphy, Ed.D. and other investigators. The PSC has been used in more than 200 studies in the US and other countries and has been endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the state of Massachusetts, the government of Chile and many other organizations.
Meet the Trainer
Dr. Cody Hostutler
Dr. Cody Hostutler is a pediatric primary care psychologist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and associate professor in the department of pediatrics at The Ohio State University. Dr. Hostutler’s career is focused on improving the behavioral health (BH) care patients and families receive within their primary care medical home through practice innovation, interprofessional education, and research. Specifically, he has worked within interdisciplinary teams to develop and scale innovative models of primary care integration; consult, train, and mentor primary care teams and medical residents on BH skills; and has co-authored a textbook supporting skills development for medical providers (Mental Health Strategies for Pediatric Care).
The Partnership for Integrated Care – a collaborative of InUnity Alliance and the NYS Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, funded by NYSOMH, OASAS, and the NY Community Trust, is committed to helping behavioral health organizations around NYS to further integrate care for people with mental health, substance use, and medical challenges. https://www.partnershipforintegratedcare.org
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Please join The Partnership for Integrated Care’s Webinar on
The CRAFFT
Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/VRtzQF9mQ36Q-U4-N2MGzg#/registration
Please stay tuned for upcoming dates for additional learning collaborative offerings sponsored by The Partnership for Integrated Care. For technical assistance, please email Konstantin Nadirashvili at knadirashvili@iuany.org.
About the Training
The CRAFFT is an efficient and effective health screening tool designed to identify substance use disorder and substance-related riding/driving risk among youth ages 12-21. It has been implemented as part of universal screening efforts in thousands of busy medical and community health settings, as it yields information that can serve as the basis for early intervention and patient-centered counseling.
The CRAFFT is the most well-studied adolescent substance use screener available and has been shown to be valid for adolescents from a variety of socioeconomic and racial/ethnic backgrounds. It is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Bright Futures Guidelines for preventive care screenings and well-visits, the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services’ Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) program, and the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Youth Screening Guide.
The current version of the tool, the CRAFFT 2.1, includes evidence-based revisions to increase the sensitivity and specificity of the tool and includes vaping as a method of administration for marijuana use. The CRAFFT 2.1+N contains additional questions about tobacco and nicotine use.
Meet the Trainer
Jill Donelan, Psy.D
Dr. Jill Donelan brings over 15 years of experience as a behavioral health clinician and supervisor and leader with specialties in the treatment of youth, trauma, severe mental illness, and evidence based practices. She currently serves as the VP of Clinical Operations at Mirah, a technology company specializing in helping healthcare organizations measure and improve behavioral health outcomes.
Drawing on her extensive background, Dr. Donelan has successfully spearheaded the implementation of measurement-based care and Collaborative Care Management programs in diverse behavioral health and medical settings, optimizing treatment outcomes and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Her leadership at Mirah reflects a commitment to advancing evidence-based practices in behavioral health, ensuring organizations achieve optimal results in patient care and overall operational efficiency.
Bridging the gap between evidence-based practice and real-life clinical care, Dr. Donelan has made significant contributions to the field of psychology through her numerous leadership positions, presentations, and publications, including authoring the book “Trauma Treatment Toolbox for Teens. ” Dr. Donelan earned a BA in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin and MS and Doctorate of Psychology (Psy.D.) in Clinical Psychology from Baylor University. She is a licensed psychologist in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
The Partnership for Integrated Care – a collaborative of InUnity Alliance and the NYS Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, funded by NYSOMH, OASAS, and the NY Community Trust, is committed to helping behavioral health organizations around NYS to further integrate care for people with mental health, substance use, and medical challenges. https://www.partnershipforintegratedcare.org
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(Politico Pro, 2/7/25)
The state Department of Health improperly paid $16.2 million worth of Medicaid claims between October 2023 and March 2024, according to an audit released Thursday by the state comptroller’s office.
Nearly $12 million of the improper payments went toward Medicaid managed care premiums for New Yorkers who should have instead been enrolled in fee-for-service coverage, the audit found.
Another $2 million was spent on fee-for-service claims for inpatient services that should have been paid by managed care.
Additionally, the state paid $1.3 million for maternity claims with inaccurate information about low newborn birth weights, which increased reimbursement rates.
The department has already recovered more than $2.8 million of the $16.2 million.
“My office’s latest audit found areas where the Department of Health can do better and avoid improper and wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars,” state Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli said in a statement. “By acting swiftly on the audit’s recommendations DOH has already recovered millions of dollars.”
The improper payments were a small fraction of the 370 million claims — totaling nearly $49.6 billion — that the state processed during the same six-month timeframe.
Still, the comptroller’s office came up with 10 recommendations for the health department to recover the remaining funds and improve controls.
The department said the Office of the Medicaid Inspector General is now performing its own analyses in response to the issues raised by the audit.