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The White House

• Health Care Reform in Action

• Putting Americans in Control of Their Health Care
  
  

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

• New Curriculum Strengthens Peers’ Role in Integrated Health Delivery

  The SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions has developed a new peer support curriculum, Whole Health Action Management (WHAM), to promote whole health self-management and strengthen the peer workforce’s role in integrated healthcare delivery.

  WHAM prepares the peer workforce to use person-centered planning to set achievable whole health goals and weekly action plans to create new health behavior by engaging in weekly WHAM groups. It also teaches basic health screens for prevention and shared decision making with health professionals.

  Founded on researched chronic disease self-management programs such as HARP (Health and Recovery Peer Program) and science-based health and resiliency factors, like the Relaxation Response, WHAM was designed by peers for peers in recovery from mental illness and substance use disorders.

  For more information on WHAM, visit http://www.integration.samhsa.gov/health-wellness/wham or contact Hannah Mason at hannahm@thenationalcouncil.org.

• SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS): CIHS Billing Worksheets Make Financing Integrated Services Easier
  Financing is one of the key elements in integrating primary and behavioral healthcare services. Once you determine the best clinical model for your program, it is necessary to determine how the financing supports it. And while financing is often viewed as a barrier to sustaining primary and behavioral healthcare integration activities, there are nearly always means of reimbursement. To help you bill Medicare and Medicaid optimally for integrated services, CIHS has developed customized billing and financial worksheets for each state that identify existing billing opportunities for services provided in integrated healthcare settings. For more information, go to http://www.integration.samhsa.gov.
  
  
• Financing Center of Excellence: Health Care Reform
  
  

Other Federal Agencies

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

• Comprehensive government website: healthcare.gov
  

• Regulations outlining how the government will assist employers with insurance coverage of early retirees
  
  
• A letter to Congress from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius outlining HHS’s progress to date on health reform implementation efforts
  
  
• Regulatory guidance to insurers, employers, and consumers on letting young people remain on their parents’ insurance up to age 26
  

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

• Guidance Bulletin and cover memo (In PDF format) Guidance Bulletin and Cover Memo
  
  
• Health Status of New Medicaid Enrollees Under Health Reform (link to abstract and full PDF document)
  

• From Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): Improving Access to Home and Community-Based Services (.pdf)
  
  
• Medicaid Prescription Drugs under the Affordable Care Act
  
  
• Actuarial Studies: Estimated Impact of Health Care Reform Proposals

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• National Library of Medicine: Health Care Reform, Health Economics, and Health Policy

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

• Dissemination and Implementation – Put Prevention into Practice (PPIP)
  
  
• Filling the Information Needs for Healthcare Reform: Expert Meeting Summary and Identification of Next Steps

National Organizations (Private Sector)

Alliance for Health Reform

• New Issue Brief Implementing Health Reform: Federal Rules & State Roles

All Claims Payer Database Council (ACPDC) Formerly known as the Regional All Payer Healthcare Information Council (RAPHIC)

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Health Reform

Commonwealth Fund - Health Reform Resource

National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Health Reform Implementation FAQs

National Academy of State Health Policy (NASHP):

• Supporting State Policymakers’ Implementation of Federal Health Reform
• Long Term Services and Supports and Chronic Care Coordination: Policy Advances Enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
• Preparing for Health Reform: A Conversation with State Policymakers

National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Health Care Reform Resources

National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO)

American Psychiatric Association (APA)

Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) Health Reform Resources

National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) Health Reform Resources

National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) The Latest in Health Reform News

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

Mental Health America

National Council for Community Behavioral Health Care Policy Issues and Resources: Healthcare Reform

• Mental Healthcare Reform
  

National Association of State Medicaid Directors (NASMD) Health Reform Resources

Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health Reform Resources

Families USA

National Governors Association (NGA) Health Reform Implementation Resources

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Last Updated October 5, 2010