BCBS Adds New Reimbursable Services for LMHCs
BCBS has added 4 new CPT Codes, representing new reimburseable services for LMHCs & LMFTs and LICSWs. The codes may only be billed for care provided in a nursing home, skilled nursing facility, or residential treatment setting. Effective May 1, 2008, the codes were added to BCBS PPO Plans, Medicare Advantage, HMO plans, including the Managed Care Behavioral Health (HMO Blue) and Indemnity Provider Contracts.

4th Edition of MaMHCA’s Referral Network Directory is Published
The 4th Edition of MaMHCA’s Referral Network Directory is now available. In a new format, with easier to use cross indexes, MaMHCA again plans to distribute the Directory to agencies, hospitals, private practitioners, educational settings, service organizations, libraries, EAPs, and more.

MaMHCA will also accept applications from interested members who will be added to the Directory at the next printing. Please call the office at 508-698-0010 for an application. Copies of the Directory can be obtained through our online order form.

Regional Meetings
Our regional meeting program is gathering steam. Two new Regional Representatives, David Poles, Newton area, and Linda Roberts, Southeastern area, have volunteered to lead networking/peer supervision groups in their areas. Invitations for the September meetings have been sent and we look forward to reports of their meetings. Any members in these areas wishing to participate can call MaMHCA at 508-698-0010, to get involved. MaMHCA is still looking for Coordinators in Central and Western Mass.

MaMHCA Launches Our Supervision Training Year-2 Programs
Beginning October 4, 2008, with Addictions: What Supervisors Need to Know & Do, with Pam Mullins, LMHC, LADC-1, MaMHCA will present five, 3 hour workshops in important specialty topics in Supervision. Crisis Intervention : What Supervisors Need to Know & Do, with Joanna Poole, LMHC, Supervision of Psychopharmacology Work, with Mary Gagne. , MSN, APRN, Supervision & Cultural Competency & Diversity, with Dalia LLera, Ed.D., and Supervision: Risk Management in the Treatment of Trauma & Neglect, with Janina Fischer, Ph.D. will complete the series. Each of these workshops is presented by individuals who are experienced clinicians, teachers and supervisors in their fields

All of these workshops will qualify for the year 2 (15 CE hours) requirement toward becoming a MaMHCA Certified Supervisor. In addition, MaMHCA will also be presenting another round of Supervision Training Year-1 Workshops beginning on December 6, 2008. LMHCs who missed any of the Year-1 Trainings last year, may begin Year-2 now, and make-up any needed Year-1 workshops.

We have been very pleased with the feedback we have gotten from participants in the first year of the program’s trainings. Additionally, several clinics and agencies have expressed interest in having MaMHCA Certified Supervisors assist with their supervision needs. Graduate programs have been similarly supportive, and we continue to receive many requests at MaMHCA, from individual license seekers, for assistance in finding approved supervisors. MaMHCA will be publishing and distributing a Directory of MaMHCA Certified Supervisors.

The workshops are open to all members and LMHCs, regardless of their interest in the MaMHCA Certification Process.

MaMHCA Has two New Products
New, Fabulous MaMHCA Bags, with a zipper, a lining and an outside pen pocket; black nylon canvas with blue logo and stripe. And new MaMHCA T-shirts with embroidered logo, in navy, teal and burgundy. MaMHCA cups and Membership certificates are also still available.