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Telehealth Tips: Managing Suicidal Clients During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Provides tips for evaluating and treating suicidal individuals remotely via telehealth. This resource was developed by Columbia University's Center for Practice Innovations and Suicide Prevention - Training, Implementation and Evaluation [SP-TIE].
Telehealth Tips: Provides more than 20 practical tips from a certified telemental health therapist. Licensed marriage and family therapist Pam Suraci shares guidance from her experience in a 27-minute video interview.
Telemental Health 101: Provides a videotaped training video to help prepare school mental health clinicians to use telemental health to provide services and supports to students and families. Jennifer Cox, LCSW-C, director of the University of Maryland School Mental Health Program, prepared this 47-minute training video to support the transition from in-person to virtual formats in response to extended widespread school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 Telehealth Program (Invoices & Reimbursements): Provides funding, appropriated by Congress, to help health care providers provide connected care services to patients at their homes or mobile locations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 Telehealth Program provides immediate support to eligible health care providers responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by fully funding their telecommunications services, information services, and devices necessary to provide critical connected care services. This webpage serves as a hub for information, forms and processes related to this reimbursement program. The FCC has provided a set of Frequently Asked Questions [FAQ’s] for this program.
InsureKidsNow.gov - Mental Health: Offers a set of tools to encourage parents and caregivers to enroll their children (students) in Medicaid and CHIP to access important mental health benefits. The national Medicaid agency [CMS] is emphasizing mental health care in its recently launched Connecting Kids to Coverage National Campaign to reach out to families with children and teens who can qualify for Medicaid and CHIP coverage. Check out the Outreach Tool Library for a full view of the variety of outreach materials available, and CMS’ Initiative’s pages to locate topic-specific resources.
Connecting Kids to Coverage: State Outreach, Enrollment and Retention Strategies: Highlights effective and practical strategies to improve state outreach, enrollment, and renewal activities to reduce churn and retain children in Medicaid and CHIP health care programs. By May 2021, 39.0 million children were enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP, a significant increase that appears to have been driven by the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) and the continuous enrollment requirement of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act [FFCRA]. Strategies presented by the Medicaid and CHIP [MAC] Learning Collaborative are informed by respondents from seven states between April 2020 and April 2021: Alabama, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Biden-Harris Administration Releases Medicaid and CHIP Guidance Targeting Vaccination and Testing for COVID-19: Issues guidance (08/30/21) to states as they navigate options to advance COVID-19 vaccination and testing for millions of eligible individuals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [CMS] provides states with information about additional American Relief Plan [ARP] funding to promote the importance of COVID-19 vaccination for eligible children and adults enrolled in Medicaid. This guidance highlights Medicaid and CHIP coverage for diagnostic and screening COVID-19 testing in a variety of settings, including schools; and reinforces that COVID-19 vaccines are available to nearly all Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program [CHIP] beneficiaries for free.
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CMS Current Emergencies - 2020 Coronavirus: Offers technical guidance for health care providers and states about flexibilities in Med