Mental Health Parity and Client Advocacy: What and Why You Need to Know belongs in serious BCBA study because it shapes whether behavior-analytic decisions stay useful once they leave a clean training example and enter clinic sessions and day-to-day service delivery. In Mental Health Parity and Client Advocacy: What and Why You Need to Know, for this course, the practical stakes show up in service continuity, accurate reporting, and defensible clinical decisions, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →For those working in the mental health field, whether on the clinical side or the administrative operations side, a basic understanding of federal mental health parity law is important for good practice. For professionals working in revenue cycle management of ABA practices it is essential. This session will provide participants with an outline and explanation of the key components of the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA), how they relate to coverage and claims recovery, ethical considerations, and client rights. Topics include types of policies and conditions MHPAEA applies to, prohibited treatment limitations, including quantitative and nonquantitative treatment limitations, insurer documentation requirements and current developments in the law. The format for the presentation will be lecture with some audience participation.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 0.5 | General |
| AAPC | 1 | — |
| AMBA | 1 | — |
Dan Unumb is an attorney and the parent of a child with autism. As President of the Autism Legal Resource Center, a national law and consulting firm, he represents professional associations, autism service providers, and individuals with autism spectrum disorders and their families seeking access to services and has briefed autism issues in state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Dan previously served as Executive Director of the Autism Speaks Legal Resource Center. Before beginning full-time autism advocacy, Dan was the Director of Litigation for South Carolina Legal Services, a 10-office, statewide legal aid program. He has served as an adjunct professor in Legal Writing and Advocacy at George Washington University Law School and the Charleston School of Law, and as an instructor at the Justice Department’s National Advocacy Center. Dan graduated from Northwestern University School of Law, and previously practiced with law firms in Boston, Washington, D.C. and Charleston, SC, as well as the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Dan is co-author of the law school casebook “Autism and the Law,” and has presented on legal topics pertaining to autism at numerous conferences and trainings including the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association, the Autism Society of America, the Autism Law Summit, the Association of Professional Behavior Analysts, ABAI, and the Council on Autism Services. Dan is the 2020 recipient of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board’s Michael Hemingway Behavior Analysis Award for his work in developing public policy related to behavior analysis and increasing access to behavior-analytic services.
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