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Behavioral Health and Foster Care - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2020
1543 20 Children Carve In Guidance Update FA Qs v3 FINAL

Children’s Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) are for children and youth who need extra care at home/in the community and want to avoid going to the hospital or a long-term facility. The services are provided in the community and help children and youth be successful at home, in school, and in other environments. HCBS are personal and flexible and are meant to meet the physical health, behavioral health, and/or developmental needs of each child/youth. Here you will find important workflow reminders, answers to questions you may have about HCBS, and other helpful resources.

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Children & Family
  
Education Events & Patient Care Resources - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2020
Dinner Series of 2020-2021: Third Annual Prescription For Long Life Conference Series

In this series of lectures, the overall goals will be to summarize what is known about burnout, physician wellness, use of dietary and herbal supplements, destructive behavior, and education on diet.

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Provider Events
  
Education Events & Patient Care Resources - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2020
2020 Healthfirst Fall Symposium

Best Practices and Innovation: Pillars of Wellness for New Yorkers Seeking Longevity and Quality in the Era of COVID-19

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Provider Events
  
Behavioral Health and Foster Care - Form - 2020
Children's HCBS Authorization and Care Manager Notification Form

The Children’s Waiver HCBS Provider must complete this form for Children’s Waiver HCBS beyond the initial service period of 24 hours/96 units/60 days.

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Health Home and Community-Based Services
  
Coding - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2020
Documentation and Coding: Risk Adjustment

This tip sheet offers guidance on proper risk adjustment coding. Risk adjustment relies on correct ICD-10-CM diagnosis coding to represent the member’s health status and to establish an accurate risk score.

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Clinical Documentation Improvement
  
Coding - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2020
Documentation and Coding: Functional Quadriplegia

This tip sheet offers guidance on how to submit diagnosis codes for Functional Quadriplegia, which is defined as “the inability to move due to severe disability or frailty caused by another condition without physical injury or damage to the brain or spinal cord.”

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Clinical Documentation Improvement
  
Coding - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2020
Documentation and Coding: Protein-Calorie Malnutrition (PCM) or Protein-Energy Malnutrition (PEM)

To accurately code a patient as Protein-Calorie Malnutrition or Protein-Energy Malnutrition, the coder must document the diagnosis. Severity ranges from subclinical deficiencies to obvious wasting (with edema, hair loss, and skin atrophy) to starvation. Multiple organs are often impaired.

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Clinical Documentation Improvement
  
Education Events & Patient Care Resources - General Update - 2020
USPSTF Recommendation on HIV Screening and PrEP

New York State is seeking to increase the number of eligible individuals taking advantage of PrEP from 32,000 at the end of 2018 to 65,000 by the end of 2020.

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Sexual Health
  
Education Events & Patient Care Resources - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2020
PrEP to Prevent HIV and Promote Sexual Health

NYS strongly endorses PrEP as an effective, evidence-based biomedical intervention that is a pillar of primary prevention for individuals at high risk of HIV acquisition, emphasizing the importance of prescribing PrEP in conjunction with counseling on safer sex and safer injection practices.

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Sexual Health
  
Education Events & Patient Care Resources - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2020
PrEP Recommended ICD-10-CM Codes

The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) coding system does not designate specific billing codes for PrEP or PEP related services. The New York State Department of Health and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene recommend the use of the following ICD-10-CM codes for PrEP and PEP related outpatient services.

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Sexual Health
  
Education Events & Patient Care Resources - General Update - 2020
PrEP Awareness Week

The theme of PrEP Aware Week, 2020 is: “This is Why I PrEP”. The theme recognizes that PrEP is an individualized approach to HIV prevention and sexual health. “This is Why I PrEP” provides a broad umbrella for reaching all New Yorkers with tailored messages about PrEP that will speak to them as individuals and members of different, overlapping, diverse communities.

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Sexual Health
  
Education Events & Patient Care Resources - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2020
Developmental and Behavioral Health Screening in Pediatrics: Best Practices and Challenges

October 17, 2020 This CME activity is designed to provide general pediatricians and family practitioners with the most up-to-date guidance on developmental and behavioral screening practices. The event addressed strategies that general pediatricians and family practitioners can use to implement this guidance in their offices and the challenges they and the families in their care may face.

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