I was invited to do a presentation at the American Mental Wellness Association national conference on 11/22 in Harrisburg, PA. The presentation will cover “How to get and keep insurance funding for mental health treatment” focusing on children. It’s applicable to private health insurance and Medicaid EPSDT funding and will review the treatment outcome measurement system I developed and have been using for the past … Continue reading American Mental Wellness Association presentation 11/22/19

I gave a presentation on Wednesday 5/15 at the PA Positive Behavior Support conference in Hershey PA about “How to Get & Keep Insurance Funding for Necessary Treatment,” based on the outcome measurement system I created (The Kossor Scale for Treatment Outcome Measurement).  Ninety-four pre-registered attendees; the conference authorities recorded the program for replay on the PaTTAN website in the near future.  I’m producing my … Continue reading How to Get and Keep Mental Health Treatment Funding for Children

The proposed IBHS (Intensive Behavioral Health Services) regulations have been released for public comment.  IBHS is intended to replace the existing Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services (BHRS) regulations that have existed for the past 20 years or so.  In the BHRS system, licensed psychologists were permitted to deliver services after enrolling in the Pennsylvania Medicaid program and submitting a Service Description (a process that I completed … Continue reading The Proposed IBHS Regulations have been released. Comments have been submitted.

The following is the text of the Conclusions reported in a research paper that was published in PubMed.  Here is the link to it:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4163956 Conclusions In the over seventy years since Leo Kanner first described autism (Kanner, 1943), there has been remarkable progress in the areas of improved understanding of ASD neurobiology, genetics, early identification, and early intervention. However, recent increases in ASD prevalence … Continue reading Future Directions for Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders – a critique

Just published in April, 2018:  https://ethics.org/ecihome/research/ethicsstat The plan to severely limit the role of independent licensed psychologists in the new IBHS program in Pennsylvania (it will replace the BHRS program that has been in place to provide psychological treatment to children enrolled in Medicaid since 1992) may be a particularly strong example of this alarming trend.   Continue reading Retaliation is on the rise….