Are you passionate about your health center? Are you attending Advocacy Day for the first time? This 30-minute webinar will teach you the ropes of how to engage your representatives. It’s the prefect preparation tool for anyone interested in advocacy.
We will cover such topics such as:
- What is advocacy?
- Who are the players?
- What is your message?
- What are the best strategies?
The webinar will be hosted by Kevin Lignell, Communications Consultant for the School-Community Health Alliance of Michigan. It will be recorded and available for future use on our website.
Are you a youth or adult that supports school-based, school-linked, and school wellness health centers and programs in Michigan? Come to the Capitol and have your voice be heard!
Join the School-Community Health Alliance of Michigan on April 22nd in the Christman Training Room of the Christman Builiding in Lansing, MI for our Annual Advocacy Day. Make the legislative process come alive and join us from 9am – 3pm for legislative visits and crucial policy updates for the field.
Youth and Health Center Professionals are encouraged to attend.
After you register below with your names and health center address, SCHA-MI will make individual legislative appointments for your group. An email will be sent to every adult leader that has registered confirming all appointments.
Things that Adult Leaders must know:
- Please note on the registration below that you can add guests. We are asking that if you add guests, they are youth only. Attendees may bring up to 10 youth for every adult.
- All adults must register separately.
- Be sure that a media consent form is on file for each youth that you bring. Don’t have one? Use this form
- If you are bringing youth and would need parking for a bus or van, please mark the box below on the registration. Unfortunately, this can only be provided for those bringing groups of youth.
Other resources and materials for the day:
If you have any questions, please contact Kevin Lignell, Communications Consultant, at 517.908.0847 ext. 231.
SCHA-MI presents a webinar to delve into immigration status and eligibility for Medicaid. We will present common barriers and fears immigrant families face, and how to encourage families with mixed immigration status to apply for benefits without fear of reprisal when becoming a citizen. The presentation will be broken down into 3 sections, with plenty of time to ask questions after each section.
Our presenters for this webinar are:
Angel Padilla, Health Policy Analyst, works closely with other health project staff to develop and implement National Immigration Law Center’s federal immigrant health policy agenda. Prior to joining NILC in February 2014, he was an immigration policy consultant at National Council of La Raza. Before that, he was a legislative assistant for Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL), advising on issues related to health care and the Affordable Care Act, among others. Mr. Padilla also has interned with the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council and the U.S. House of Representatives. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree from Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Sonya Schwartz, a research fellow at the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF), works improve access to health coverage for low-income children and families and also leads CCF’s work on coverage for immigrant families. Before joining CCF, Sonya was a program director at the National Academy for State Health Policy, where she led State Refor(u)m, an online network for health reform implementation. Sonya has worked on a broad range of health reform, and state health policy issues, including implementation of health reform, health insurance exchanges, essential health benefits, coverage expansions through Medicaid and CHIP, and commercial insurance reforms. Sonya holds a JD from the UCLA School of Law Program in public interest law and policy, and a BA in political science and Italian from Middlebury College.
So, how are you doing in your preparations for the BIG transition to the ICD-10 code set? Soon the ICD-9 will be retired and the new code set will be in effect! With successful end-to-end testing already completed, there will be no more delays. This webinar will provide a brief overview of the code set, and some tips on how to assess your readiness for this landmark transition in the healthcare landscape.
This webinar will give an overview of the new Medicaid bulletin for Behavioral Health Providers. We will discuss which providers are eligible, CPT codes that are payable, enrollment process and other helpful information.
Facilitator: Kris Knitter, SCHA-MI Revenue Cycle Specialist
Webinar Materials:
Scha-Mi Behavioral Health Webinar
This webinar will discuss CPT coding and ICD10 coding to make sure you are getting the most detailed claims out the door for payment. We will also discuss the use of modifiers as to when they are needed as well as working denials on the back end. The cleaner the claims, the more consistent the revenue stream will be.
This is your opportunity to advocate for school-based health centers with Michigan legislators. Don’t miss your chance – register by February 3rd!
To prepare:
1. Bring identification (e.g.: driver’s license) to enter the building.
2. Conference call for advocacy day participants will take place on Tuesday, January 31st at 1:30 p.m. The call-in number is: 1-800-617-4268. The pin number is 38589321#. A reminder will be sent prior to the call, but please mark your calendar.
3. Additional details, including your legislative appointments and parking information, will be sent prior to February 7th. Registration will close on February 3rd.