new behavioral incentives for community mental health agencies and federally health qualified health centers with existing training programs. professionals and paraprofessionals in their first year of practice. 3-b. Increase the Develop and implement a readiness assessment to support clinics in Transformation Hub (re: readiness ability of assessing their capacity and ability to implement long-term assessment) Contact: Selena Bolotin, behavioral health residency and training programs. Qualis Stakeholders: ? clinical training Promote increased collaboration between universities/colleges and sites to accept clinics for clinical training of behavioral health professions. Examine students/trainees the approach used by Clinical Placements Northwest as a potential by incentivizing model for expanding coordination across the state. and supporting Consider legislative and funding support that provides financial clinical training incentives for current and potential clinical training sites to make up sites. for time and money lost while training new healthcare workers. Review opportunities to provide additional incentives for clinical training sites to send their preceptors to get training as supervisors. 3-c. Encourage HCA could lead a process to work with payers to update/create HCA sent memo to payers about this payers contracts with licensed community behavioral health agencies in Contact: Alice Lind, HCA Stakeholders: ? (MCOs/health addition to individual licensed clinicians. Revisit with Rates and Reimbursement plans and BHOs) Alternately, policymakers could direct HCA to move toward Workgroup (why not implementing?) to contract with renegotiating the current contracts, and consider requiring future Stakeholders?? Contact: Lindsey Gard licensed payer contracts to include licensed community behavioral health community agencies, in addition to individual licensed clinicians. behavioral health agencies, as well as individual licensed clinicians. 3-d. Increase One suggested approach would be for policymakers to create a funding to grant program for universities with psychiatric ARNP programs in expand Washington state to apply for and receive funds to pay for faculty behavioral health positions and preceptorship placement. A pool of $5 million would
new behavioral health professionals and paraprofessionals in their first year of practice. incentives for community mental health agencies and federally qualified health centers with existing training programs. 3-b. Increase the ability of behavioral health clinical training sites to accept students/trainees by incentivizing and supporting clinical training sites. Develop and implement a readiness assessment to support clinics in assessing their capacity and ability to implement long-term residency and training programs. Promote increased collaboration between universities/colleges and clinics for clinical training of behavioral health professions. Examine the approach used by Clinical Placements Northwest as a potential model for expanding coordination across the state. Consider legislative and funding support that provides financial incentives for current and potential clinical training sites to make up for time and money lost while training new healthcare workers. Review opportunities to provide additional incentives for clinical training sites to send their preceptors to get training as supervisors. Transformation Hub (re: readiness assessment) Contact: Selena Bolotin, Qualis Stakeholders: ? 3-c. Encourage payers (MCOs/health plans and BHOs) to contract with licensed community behavioral health agencies, as well as individual licensed clinicians. HCA could lead a process to work with payers to update/create contracts with licensed community behavioral health agencies in addition to individual licensed clinicians. Alternately, policymakers could direct HCA to move toward renegotiating the current contracts, and consider requiring future payer contracts to include licensed community behavioral health agencies, in addition to individual licensed clinicians. HCA sent memo to payers about this Contact: Alice Lind, HCA Stakeholders: ? Revisit with Rates and Reimbursement Workgroup (why not implementing?) Contact: Lindsey Gard Stakeholders?? 3-d. Increase funding to expand behavioral health One suggested approach would be for policymakers to create a grant program for universities with psychiatric ARNP programs in Washington state to apply for and receive funds to pay for faculty positions and preceptorship placement. A pool of $5 million would
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