CLIENTS

Previous Projects

State and County Government

• Massachusetts
  • Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Abuse Services: Substance Abuse Strategic Plan. Peer Review. Strategic plan for workforce development. BSAS Briefs. Strategic planning & Implementation status. Financial Mapping. SBIRT Meeting. Adolescent Proposal. OxyContin and other Prescription Drug Abuse. School Health Manual. SAMHSA Launch.
  • Executive Office of Health and Human Services: Financial condition of human service providers. System of care proposal for Central Massachusetts.
  • Department of Mental Health: Strategic Planning. Quality Improvement Collaborative.Time study of rehabilitation services. With Andersen Consulting, Medicaid time study survey of MA DMH providers.
  • MA Group Insurance Commission: With Boston Benefit Partners, behavioral health care reprocurement.
  • Department of Social Services: "tiered" foster care. First in the nation, statewide managed child welfare initiative, Commonworks. Product-based adoption services
  • Office of the Attorney General: Assessment of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Saint Vincent Hospital operations.
  • Division of Medical Assistance: Strategic planning for managed care for SSI disabled Medicaid recipients.
  • Department of Mental Retardation: Employee satisfaction survey and TQM. Study of contracted human service providers.
  • Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Futures Commission. Substance Abuse Task Force.
• New York
  • Office of Mental Health: Project Liberty. Children's Special Needs Plans. Managed care readiness. County-cost and utilization analysis. Dialog Group. Red Cross Recovery Grant Proposal. RFMH - Conference Grant. Outpatient Restructuring.
• Montana
  • Division of Addictive and Mental Disorders: Corrective Action Plan for the managed care contractor.
• Rhode Island
  • Department of Children, Youth and Families: System of care planning
• Arizona
  • Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS): with Mercer, behavioral health reprocurement.
• Washington
  • State Legislature: Options for redesign of the regional delivery system.
  • Clark County Behavioral Health Services: Strategic planning and managed care organization procurement.
• Ohio
  • Department of Mental Health: Financing strategy. Business case for mental health services. State Transformation Grant. Social Security Administration proposal for a vocational program.
• Georgia
  • Department of Mental Health: With APS Healthcare, comprehensive assessment of mental health needs.
• Iowa
  • Division of Mental Health. With Technical Assistance Collaborative, mental health system evaluation.
• New Jersey
  • Division of Child Behavioral Health Services: with the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute of the University of South Florida, independent assessment of New Jersey’s Behavioral Health Care System. Rate setting and financial allocation analyses. Children's residential program rate analysis.

Federal Government

• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
  • Title V and EPSDT children's mental health web module
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA)
  • Methods to identify children with behavioral health problems.
  • Best practices for EPSDT behavioral health screening.
  • With NIATx, quality improvement technologies.
  • SAMHSA National Leadership Institute, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment: Peer-based learning and organizational development.
  • 2004 Consumer Directed Services Initiative.
  • Shared Decision-Making.
  • Employer briefs on substance abuse treatment.
  • With Abt Associates, Uniform Reporting System and DS200+ data elements.

Foundations

• Commonwealth Fund: State Innovations in Behavioral Health systems. Massachusetts’ Child Psychiatric Access Program (MCPAP). Early childhood systems of care.
• Rhode Island Foundation: Public mental health financing.
• California Institute of Mental Health: with Center for Health Care Strategies, California Learning Collaborative.
• MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation: planning to establish a transition age youth program funded by Robert Wood Johnson, Local Initiative Funding Partners
• Center for Health Care Strategies: Behavioral pharmacy management. Medicaid Behavioral Disease Management. TennCare Partners procurement recommendations. Public behavioral health reprocurement.Purchasing Institute. Performance measures.

Providers

• Mental Health and Substance Abuse Corporations of Massachusetts (MHSACM): Annual report on key financial measures. Turnover in direct care positions.
• Advocates, Inc.: Jail Diversion Program. Drug Court. SAMHSA Proposal (Homeless). Strategy/Upward Review. Upward Review. Quality of work survey.
• Assabet Valley Collaborative: Family Success Partnership.
• Behavioral Health Network of Maine: Strategic plan. Utilization Review License. QM Processes.
• Behavioral Health Network, Inc.: Demonstration program using Massachusetts’ free care pool funds for behavioral healthcare.
• CAB Health and Recovery Services: Adolescent substance abuse needs assessment. Juvenile drug court. Young Adult Offender Reentry Program. Adolescent residential substance abuse program. MET/CBT 5. SA residential treatment for women with families. HIV/AIDS risk reduction. Determination of Need for a regional detoxification center.
• Central MA Communities of Care: Successful system of care proposal.
• Communities for People: Lead agency for Department of Social Services.
• Health and Education Services: Mental Health services for elders.
• Honor Court, Prevent Inc.: Strategic planning. Half-way house license application.
• Joint Coalition on Health for North Central Massachusetts: Assessment of mental health and substance abuse needs in a 10 community area.
• Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers. Quality improvement and project management.

Other

• American College of Mental Health Administration: 2003 Santa Fe Summit.
• FIRST HEALTH Services Corporation: Medicaid maternal and child health services.
• Gateway Project: Reimbursement and profit sharing.
• General Electric. Work-Out! initiative.
• Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine: Quality of Care Unit.
• National Research Institute of NASMHPD: Other State Agency project data collection.
• Philadelphia Blue Ribbon Children’s Behavioral Health Commission: Children's planning.
• UPMC, Pittsburgh PA: With Mathematica, Health Management Associates, and the Hilltop Institute, potential managed care business opportunties.
• Value Options, New Mexico: 2009 New Mexico Behavioral Health Purchasing Collaborative.