• The COVID-19 Impact on Behavioral Health Care –
    On Demand

    Adapting new methods to manage anxiety, depression, and ADHD

    The COVID-19 pandemic intensified how you help your patients manage behavioral health issues like depression, anxiety, and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), It also impacted you and your care teams from personal well-being to how to navigate coding and billing for behavioral health services.

    In response, this comprehensive on-demand program, made-up of a series of CME activities that rolled out individually Spring 2021, was designed to provide in-depth education on how to provide the support your patients, yourself and your care teams need as a result of the impact of COVID-19.

    Now bundled together, this on-demand educational series allows you to engage and learn at your convenience with content focused on the following pillars:

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    • Impacts on Patients – Provides a deep dive into patient impacts and evidence-based best practices.
    • Impacts on Practice Reimbursement – Supplies details on behavioral health coding and billing to improve reimbursement.
    • Impact on Physician and Team Wellness – Lends guidance on improving your and your team’s well-being.
       

    Available for free through June 25, 2023.


    Sessions


    Predisposing Sessions:

    • Managing Anxiety and Depression in Your Practice - 1 CME credit*
    • Managing ADHD in Your Practice - 1 CME credit*
    • Behavioral Health Gaps and Their Relation to Reimbursement in the Time of COVID-19 - 1 CME credit*


    Enabling Sessions:

    • Applying Evidence-Based Criteria for Anxiety and Depression into Practice - 1.25 credits*
    • Applying Evidence-Based Criteria for ADHD into Practice - 1 CME credit*
    • Transforming Access to Behavioral Health Services in Your Practice - 1 CME credit*
    • Improving You and Your Team's Wellness in the Era of COVID-19 - 1 CME credit*
    • Putting it All Together: Creating a Plan of Action to Improve the Behavioral Health of Your Patients and Your Team - 1 CME credit*
       

    Practice Pearl Interviews:

    • Lessons from Participants: Management of Depression and Anxiety - .25 CME credits
    • Lessons from Participants: Management of ADHD - .25 CME credits
    • Lessons from Participants: Practice Improvement - .25 CME credits
       

    Reinforcing Sessions:

    • Meeting the Wellness Challenge: Improving Your Wellbeing - .5 CME credits*
    • Best Practice Management of Depression - .5 CME credits*
    • Best Practice Management of Anxiety - .5 CME credits*
    • Best Practice Management of ADHD - 1 CME credit*
    • Transforming Your Practice to Meet the Present and Future State of Behavioral Health - .5 CME credits*
    • Implementing a Collaborative Care Model in Your Practice - .5 CME credits*


    *Enhance your patient care today and earn up to 2 additional AAFP Prescribed credits for when you complete the Translation to Practice® (t2p®) process.

    Note: Access to online content ends on June 25, 2023.
     

    Funding Statement
     

    MolinaCares

    Brought to you by the MolinaCares Accord. Education developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians. 


    Faculty


    Santina Wheat, MD, MPH, FAAFP, Chair
    Lindsay Fazio, PhD
    Ravi Grivois-Shah, MD
    Lauren Oshman, MD, MPH, FAAFP
    Manisha Sharma, MD, FAAFP
     

    Additional Resource

    CME Credit Statement

    The AAFP has reviewed The COVID-19 Impact on Behavioral Health Care – On Demand and deemed it acceptable for up to 12.5 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed credit. Term of Approval is from 6/25/2021 to 6/25/2023. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    The AAFP is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    The American Academy of Family Physicians designates this Enduring Materials, Self-Study for a maximum of 12.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    CME activities approved for AAFP credit are recognized by the AOA as equivalent to AOA Category 2 credit.
     

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