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The Psychology Times 2013 COMMUNITY AWARD STATESMANSHIP Steven Welsh, Rita Culross, Connie Patterson, Carmen Broussard, Susan Ratterree, E. Francoise Parr, Kelly Parker also Lee Matthews
The Statesmanship Award goes to the person or group that embraces win-win problem solving in government or legislative areas. It involves the respect for diversity and genuine efforts to engage those with different views. But also, the award involves maintaining excellence in decisions and outcomes, not just compromises.
True statesmen and stateswomen preserve the best principles and values of the larger society, while at the same time creating a light bulb––something that produces a lot of value, but at an insignificant or small cost, either material or social.
This year’s Statesmanship Award goes to members of the School Specialist Task Force. After 30 years, the group developed a bridge that could help serve the school children of Louisiana who have very little access to school psychology services.
Winners are Dr. Rita Culross, Dr. Connie Patterson, Dr. Carmen Broussard, Susan Ratterree, E. Francoise Parr, and Kelly Parker. Also, and perhaps especially Dr. Steven Welsh, who floated the idea. Chair Dr. Lee Matthews, who embraced it, is also named by the Times’ staff.
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In a December Request for Innovations, Bill Perkins, Project Director for Medicaid Modernization, asked for ideas regarding improvements to the Louisiana Medicaid system. The Bureau of Health Services Financing (BHSF) under DHH is the administrative agency responsible for the Medicaid program. Currently, approximately 1.4 million people are enrolled in Medicaid in Louisiana, according to the communication.
Perkins listed technical components that vendors might offer ideas about, which included components: Asset Verification, Business rules engine, Call center, Case management, Clinical program integrity, Clinical quality assurance and management, Configuration management/rules engine, Data warehouse, Document management, Electronic Health Record, and many other components. Perkins also wrote that the policies, procedures, and standards related to these components would also be central to success.
“The focus of this RFI,” wrote Perkins, “is to learn about innovative ways of managing all aspects Medicaid from business processes to the systems that support our efforts. Currently, the fiscal intermediary manages both the core functions of claims processing as well as a whole host of clinical management aspects. DHH is interested in modernizing these functions, organizational approach, and evaluating the ways in which they can be executed including whether they can and should be done by separate entities.”
Perkins also wrote that the long-term vision of the project is to “cultivate a healthcare economy that promotes health outcomes and where business and information technology (IT) assets and resources are cost- effectively managed across the Medicaid Enterprise.”
The memo noted that in 2013 approximately 42.4 million Fee-for-Service Medicaid claims were processed and approved for a total of nearly $5.6 billion in provider payments. An additional 16.2 million encounter claims were received from the three Managed Care Organizations operating Bayou Health and the Prepaid Inpatient Health Plan (PIHP) operating the Louisiana Behavioral Health Partnership.
One of the keys, wrote Perkins, is the implementation of a “centralized architectural strategy.” He said that the architecture “is the prerequisite to implement systems which can communicate effectively, reduce the time and cost required for system changes, minimize the cost of service delivery and maintenance and provide consolidated analytics for informed decision making.”
Vendors are to respond by close of business on January 31, 2014. The notice said that the Request for Innovation is for planning purposes only and is not a Request for Proposal (RFP).
In a related story, the Louisiana Legislative auditor, Daryl Purpera, released a report in October 2013 noting that DHH paid approximately $1.85 million in participant feed for 1,727 deceased individuals in the Louisiana Behavioral Health Partnership and Bayou Health programs between February 2012 and June 2013.
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Medscape summaried the some of the most important medical news from the year in their review for 2013. Below are some of the highlights.
• Overtesting and Overtreating Medical societies noted 90 common but often unnecessary tests and procedures, and many of these are ordered for asymptomatic patients. Medscape authors pointed to the results of a national summit where authorities agreed to the top five overused treatments that harm patients. These are “antibiotics for the common cold, blood transfusions, ear tubes for children, early-scheduled births, and cardiac stents.”
• DSM-5 Released Medscape authors noted that the DSM-5 was released with some “searing controversy,” after 10 years of development. They quoted the chair of the DSM-IV task force as saying to use the new manual “Cautiously, if at all.”
• Obesity declared a disease Physicians at the American Medical Association 2013 Annual Meeting voted overwhelmingly to label obesity a disease, noted Medscape authors. “The decision could have implications for provider reimbursement, public policy, patient stigma, and International Classification of Diseases coding.”
• New dietary guidelines for the prevention of Alzheimer's disease were developed by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. These include minimizing saturated fats and trans fats, eating more vegetables, legumes, fruits and whole grains, eating one ounce of nuts or seeds daily for vitamin E, getting enough B12, watch out for iron, copper, and aluminium, and engage in aerobic exercise 40 minutes 3 times a week.
• The Sunshine Act, part of the ACA, requires drug makers to disclose gifts to doctors.
See Medscape for complete article.
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Governor Jindal Comments Popular Duckman Draws Criticism And a Line in Sand With Comments
The popular personality on A&E’s Duck Dynasty, family patriarch Phil Robertson, came under criticism for his comments to a GQ Magazine reporter last month. Duck Dynasty is a show filmed in West Monroe, Louisiana, and is the number one rated reality show.
The comments prompted the gay rights group GLAAD (formerly Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) to complain to the A&E Network about the comments. GLAAD’s Director of News, Ross Murray, wrote on the website, “GQ Magazine’s profile of Phil Roberston included some of the vilest and most extreme statements uttered against LGBT people in a main- stream publication.”
GQ had quoted Robertson as saying, “It seems like, to me, a vagina–as a man–would be more desirable than a man’s anus.” Also, Robertson included homosexuality with adultery, prostitution, and bestiality, saying these behaviors would keep people from inheriting the kingdom of God.
A&E “suspended” Robertson indefinitely. This caused an outcry from the show’s fans. Religious and conservative groups accused A&E of attacking Christian values and free speech.
In a statement posted on the Duck Commander website, Willie Robertson confirmed the Robertsons’ support of Phil, saying that while some of his comments were “coarse,” Phil’s beliefs are grounded in the Bible, not hate.
Willie Robertson also said, “…as a family, we cannot imagine the show going forward without our patriarch at the helm.”
Phil Robertson defended his comments as coming from the Bible and said he would not back off from his “path.”
On Dec 19, Gov. Jindal released a statement about the suspension, titled, “I Remember When TV Networks Believed in 1st Amendment.”
Jindal said, “Phil Robertson and his family are great citizens of the State of Louisiana. The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with. I don’t agree with quite a bit of stuff I read in magazine interviews or see on TV. In fact, come to think of it, I find a good bit of it offensive. But I also acknowledge that this is a free country and everyone is entitled to express their views. In fact, I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended "
On December 27, A&E reversed their decision and lifted the suspension. Governor Jindal released a statement, “Today is a Good Day for the Freedoms of Speech and Religious Liberty”
“I am glad to hear that the folks at A&E came to their senses and recognized that tolerance of religious views is more important than political correctness. Today is a good day for the freedoms of speech and religious liberty.”
“The left is going to have to get accustomed to the fact that it does not have a monopoly on free speech and is not the only group who is permitted to voice its opinion in the public square. The left may control Hollywood, but they don’t control the hearts and minds of a majority of Americans.”
Phil Robertson (center) at family dinner. His comments drew criticism and a suspension from A&E, which was later reversed. About the reversal, Governor Jindal said “Today is a good day for the freedoms of speech and religious liberty.” Photo by Zach Dilgard. Courtesy of A&E.
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Naomi Pittman interprets for a presentation at the Louisiana Counseling Association Convention held last year. Ms. Pittman works with Lighthouse Louisiana, a group providing services, training, employment and advocacy for persons with vision loss and also hearing impairments. Mr. Clinton LaBerge, Deaf Services Manager, explained to the Times that Lighthouse has been providing services in New Orleans since 1915. In 2012 they expanded services to include individuals with hearing loss.
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A recent announcement from Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) said the agency adopted an emergency rule, effective Dec. 1, to comply with federal regulations, and protect Medicaid enrollees' right to choose how they receive their healthcare. The emergency rule prohibits providers from “steering” people to certain plans.
Provider steering as any conduct intended to recommend whether or not to enroll in a managed care health plan or Medicaid fee-for- service (legacy Medicaid), or to enroll in a specific managed care health plan over another health plan. This conduct is prohibited by any health care provider enrolled with Medicaid or a managed care health plan, or any Medicaid contracted managed care entity or health plan, including shared savings plans and capitated plans.
Examples of provider steering include, but are not limited to, offering enrollees incentives for selecting one managed care health plan over another plan, and allowing an enrollee to use a provider's fax, office telephone, or computer to enroll into a specific managed care health plan.
Providers may inform enrollees of the health plans they accept and the benefits, services and specialty care services offered through those health plans. However, they must disclose information on all the health plans they accept.
Through the Bayou Health program, enrollees can now choose to receive their healthcare through one of the five managed care health plans or, when eligible, through the Medicaid fee-for-service program. The Emergency Rule supplements the existing Coordinated Care Network Rule.
Sanctions can include disenrollment from the Medicaid Program, recoup of payments, and fines.
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The Legislative Auditor, Daryl Purpera, found that the Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) paid Medicaid fees for individuals who were deceased. A report to John A. Alario, Jr., President of the Senate, and Charles E. “Chuck” Kleckley, Speaker of the House of Representatives, noted “DHH paid approximately $1.85 million in participant fees for 1,727 deceased individuals in the Louisiana Behavioral Health Partnership and Bayou Health programs between February 1, 2012, and June 30, 2013.”
The report provided the results of the analysis on Medicaid participant fees paid by the Department of Health and Hospitals for deceased individuals. Purpera’s group obtained payments made by DHH for participants in the Louisiana Behavioral Health Partnership and Bayou Health programs and compared them to the listing of deceased individuals obtained from the DHH – Center of State Registrar and Vital Records (Vital Records).
Based on the results of our analysis, DHH does not have a sufficient process in place for identifying deceased Medicaid participants in a timely manner. Since February 2012, DHH has paid the entities administering the plans within the programs $1,849,474 in participant fees for deceased individuals. Of this $1,849,474, Magellan Health Services which is associated with the Louisiana Behavioral Health Partnership received $257,964 (14%) and the five entities associated with the Bayou Health program received $1,591,510 (86%), noted the report. Based on the results of our analysis, DHH does not have a sufficient process in place for identifying deceased Medicaid participants in a timely manner.
Ruth Kennedy, Medicaid Director, said she concurred with the report. She also said that the $1.85 million overpayment identified by Purpera’s office “represents a tenth of one percent of the total per member per month (PMPM) premiums paid during the review period…”
She said the office would recoup the payments from the Managed Care Organizations by March 31, 2014.
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Three psychologists are running for the Louisiana Board of Examiners of Psychologists in an election that is currently in progress. These are Dr. Joe Comaty, retired from the Department of Health and Hospitals, Dr. Robin Chapman, currently at St. Thomas Community Health Center, and Dr. Connie Patterson, Professor of Practice in Psychology at Tulane.
Dr. Joe Comaty is a medical psychologist currently working as a consultant in teaching and training. He presents in numerous topics in psychology and medical psychology, as noted in his application. Comaty earned his doctorate in 1992 from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.
Comaty as served previously on the board and notes that he has “…experience with the national organization of regulatory boards,” and he is “aware of the current and most pressing regulatory issues including the proper regulation of telepsychology; maintenance of competence; masters level practice of psychology; mobility; standards for licensure; and proper supervision ….”
Also running is Dr. Robin Chapman who works in Health Psychology and who graduated with a PsyD degree from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in 1990. Chapman was licensed in 2012 in Louisiana according to his application, and before that in Massachusetts. He works in institutional practice, he noted, at the St. Thomas CHC in New Orleans.
Chapman noted that his goal would include advocating for the roles of psychologists in health care, substance abuse, and in the treatment of persons with developmental disabilities.
Dr. Constance Patterson is a Professor of Practice in the Department of Psychology at Tulane. She earned her PhD from Illinois State University in 1999. She completed her internship and postdoctoral education at LSU Health Sciences Center, and was licensed in 2004. She is currently serving on the LSBEP’s School Specialist Task Force.
Patterson noted on her application, “I would like to help facilitate more understanding and coalition among various specialties in psychology. We are increasingly asked to do more with shrinking resources. I believe we can serve our profession and our clients best when we collaborate and share our expertise, and we all have a similar goal of providing excellent prevention, intervention and treatment services to the citizens of Louisiana.”
Ballots were mailed to all licensed psychologists in Louisiana, during the Christmas holiday.
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Members of the Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists met with representatives of the Louisiana Department of Education recently to discuss the possibility of the “Licensed Specialist in School Psychology.”
“Basically, they gave us their blessing,” said Executive Director of the Board, Kelly Parker, about the outcome of the discussions.
The meeting included Dr. Culross, Executive Director Parker, legislative counsel Deborah Harkins, the Assistant Super- intendent of Special Education, and the management repre- sentative in charge of credentialing at the Department of Education.
Parker told the Times that while it wasn’t a long meeting, it was encouraging. The Department of Education representatives expressed a positive view of the board’s plan, which if it goes forward, will create a school specialist license under the psychology board.
“They said they thought it was a great thing,” Parker told the Times. “We intend on staying in contact with them as the legislation gets drafted and we hope they will actually support us at the table.”
Members of the School Specialist Task Force, created by the psychology board to study issues about school psychology. The Department of Education has given a “blessing” to the idea of the school specialist license. Above (clockwise from bottom) Dr. Rita Culross (looking away), Chair of the board, E. Francoise Parr, President of the La. School Psychological Association, Dr. Steven Welsh, retired Dean from Nicholls, Dr. Carmen Broussard, Professor from Nicholls, Dr. Connie Patterson, Professor from Tulane, and Executive Director, Kelly Parker.
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At the September 2013 meeting of the Licensed Professional Counselors Board of Examiners, Laura Choate presented an error discovered in the current rules having to do with client confidentiality and client records. The board decided to correct confusing language with an emergency rule, according to the minutes. The emergency rule was published in the October Louisiana Register.
It corrects confusing language in Chapter 21, Section 2105(A)(6)(f).
The section in consideration is “Chapter 21.Code of Conduct for Licensed Professional Counselors,” and “§2105. Confidentiality, Privileged Communication, and Privacy.”
The section reads:
“f. Disclosure or Transfer. Unless exceptions to confidentiality exist, counselors obtain written permission from clients to disclose or transfer records to legitimate third parties. Steps are taken to ensure that receivers of counseling records are sensitive to their confidential nature. If a client who is under the active care of a practitioner licensed by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners is diagnosed with a “serious mental illness” and refuses to sign a release of information in order for the counselor to consult with that practitioner, then the counselor must terminate the relationship in accordance with §2103.11 and refer the client to another mental health professional.”
The Emergency Rule was needed to so that licensed professional counselors disclose or transfer client records in accordance with state law, said the explanation accompanying the Emergency Rule.
The new wording is “A. – A.6.e. … f. Disclosure or Transfer. Unless exceptions to confidentiality exist, counselors obtain written permission from clients to disclose or transfer records to legitimate third parties. Steps are taken to ensure that receivers of counseling records are sensitive to their confidential nature.”
“All existing rules or parts thereof are hereby superseded,” noted the regulation, “and amended to the extent that they specifically conflict with these emergency rules. Existing board rules shall be revised and re-codified at such time as the final board rules implementing Act 173 are adopted.”
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Members of the Coalition for Violence Prevention are working with Louisiana Tech professor Dr. Frank Igou and a team of Industrial Organizational (I-O) doctoral graduate students to develop a scientifically based training method for skills in violence risk prediction.
“From the beginning, we have been committed to developing a scientifically rigorous process and product,” said Dr. Mkay Bonner, newest member of the steering committee for the Coalition. “We want something that is more than just ‘feel good.’ We want, as the ultimate goal, a tangible product with appropriate metrics that can make a difference in the real world,” she said.
Often methods and outcomes of continuing professional education are left to chance, even by the large associations such as the American Psychological Association, the American Counseling Association, or the American Medical Association.
This is why the group sought out Dr. Frank Igou, I-O psychologist and professor at Louisiana Tech. He and his research team have been working to develop an instrument that aids in measuring the ability of mental health professionals to estimate if someone might act in a violent manner. And the work also supports the goal of understanding if training has been successful in teaching the skill set needed.
Dr. John Simoneaux, steering committee member, thinks this has been essential. “Rather than simply accepting as truth our assumption that mental health professionals know little about the science of risk assessment,” said Simoneaux, “we asked Frank and his colleagues at Louisiana Tech to help us to identify specifically where those deficiencies might exist.”
“This will hopefully allow us to direct our eventual training efforts to the areas where educational needs are most salient,” Simoneaux said. “Our I-O colleagues know much more about how to correctly approach these concerns, and Dr. Igou has been gracious and generous in his willingness to help.”
The group is developing a set of scientificallly constructed items that will allow mental health professionals to better understand what they know and don’t know about their skill in the prediction of violent behavior. The research team is currently isolating characteristics and content, and beginning to work with Subject Matter Experts to analyze the information. Several hundred characteristics have been reviewed and condensed to prepare for the next phases of the study.
The team from Louisiana Tech, headed by Igou, includes Louisiana Tech graduate students Lindsey Anderson, Bharati Bekwalkar, Scott Hines, Michael Knot, and William Scanu. Scanu is the graduate student team leader.
“We appreciate the work of Dr. Igou and his students who are assisting us with this project,” said Dr. Bonner. “They are incorporating some newer technologies which will facilitate data collection and analysis. Subject matter experts (SMEs) will be contributing their knowledge and experience as well,” she noted.
Igou explained that one software program he would be using was Qualtrics. “Qualtrics performs some statistical procedures in real time,” Igou said, “and we will be able to go in and check progress with SMEs responses at anytime after the survey goes live.”
While necessary for valid training programs, all of this can becumbersome. “Unfortunately, this is very time and effort intensive,” Dr. Bonner explained. “But the end result will allow for greater support from professionals in all fields as well as the public.”
The Coalition came together last year after the Sandy Hook shootings, noting that often violent behavior was related to untreated mental health problems and that many mental health professionals and those in the lay public are ill-equipped to identify the danger and get help.
The Coalition members decided to design training that is scientifically sound and that would be a foundation for community programs to build a safety net so that potentially violent people are accurately identified and given mental health assistance.
“Our hope with Louisiana Coalition for Violence Prevention is to approach this effort as scientists who have a sincere interest in using our knowledge and expertise to solve what we consider to be a significant social ill,” Simoneaux said.
Members of the Louisiana Coalition for Violence Prevention. (Standing left to right) Dr. Bryan Gros, Cindy Nardini, LPC, and Dr. John Simoneaux. The group is currently working with Dr. Frank Igou and doctoral graduate students from Louisiana Tech to design and test a training method that will help mental health professionals deal with people who may become violent.
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In their agenda for the December 2013 meeting, the Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists noted that under “Committee Reports,” that the committee for Supervision/ Credential Reviews may discuss the issue of supervision by medical psychologists.
The agenda noted, “The board will review credentials and supervision plans of applicants for licensure. The Board may also discuss the issue of Medical Psychologists supervising post doc students.” The two members on this committee are Drs. Darla Burnett and Jessica Brown, who are both Medical Psychologists.
The supervision of candidates for a license in psychology by Medical Psychologists who have dropped their license under the state psychology board, has been a controversial issue in the community. Louisiana is the only state where this is the case.
In a June 13, 2011 decision the Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists (LSBEP) reversed their October 2010 opinion (#012) that said only psychologists licensed under the LSBEP would qualify as supervisors of students, interns, or post- doctoral individuals who seek licensure as a psychologist.
The reversal came after Dr. John Bolter, a medical psychologist representing the Medical Psychology Advisory Committee (MPAC), and Dr. Robert Marier, Executive Director of the state medical board, sent requests to the Chair, Dr. Joe Comaty, also a medical psychologist, and asked that the LSBEP reconsider their opinion, according to the published statements.
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The Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, the Louisiana School Psychological Association, and the Louisiana Psychological Association are working together in an open, collaborative manner, not to restrict trade, but to try and increase the supply of psychological services to the citizens of Louisiana, maintain quality, and benefit our community members, all at the same time.
While a few wrinkles had to be ironed out along the way by reasonable people, those in psychology put together a solution to benefit both sides and the public, and didn’t shoot each other in the foot while doing it. Are things changing a little?
Kudos to the Executive Director of the psychology board, who, after getting raked over the coals by the poorly designed (not by her) effort in 2012 to bring behavior analysts under the psychology board, seems to be exceeding expectations. She seems to have dotted every possible i and crossed every t when it comes to taking the time and effort to facilitate the communication and engage people in the problem-solving.
Led by Dr. Rita Culross, members of School Special Task Force also deserve our gratitude for thoughtful work. I appreciate Dr. Steven Welsh for taking the initiative to step up and bring ideas to the board, despite a climate that historically has not always been conducive to openness. I also heard that Dr. Jesse Lambert and Dr. Chavez Phelps did an excellent job to help the effort along. I think everyone in the room deserves our appreciation for this one.
So now we actually have a possible win-win solution and we resisted falling back on old, worn-out, win-lose, scarcity models that have hamstrung those in our community for decades. (Maybe LPA and LAMP ought to give this method a try?)
It is a stunning and a shameful fact that the Task Force brought to our attention: The current ratio of licensed school psychologists to Louisiana school children is 1 to 10,000.
If the licensed psychologists have been trying to protect their turf, they overshot the mark by thousands of miles.
I’ve asked LPA President John Fanning why LPA seems to put all its effort into restricting supply and not a nickel’s worth of effort into increasing demand, and I hope there will be an answer to that someday in the future.
For now, if this new credential turns out to be eventually approved, Licensed School Psychology Specialists will automatically be increasing demand for both themselves and the licensed psychologists. Hallelujah. Win-win.
Merry Christmas!
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The Secret Life of Pronouns by James Pennebaker
I’m reading The Secret Life of Pronouns for the third time and it’s incredible. It’s an outstanding book that you can apply to your own emails and correspondence and find out aspects of your personality that you might not have realized, especially regarding how you interact with others.
Pennebaker is a well known scholar in the field of stress related disorders and therapeutic writing. He was one of the first to show that expressive writing was related to health in a variety of areas, everything from mental health to Aids. It is based on computerized text analysis of hundreds of thousands of posts, blogs, tweets, and other communications. He shows that very low level words like articles, “the,” “a,” or “and” can be just as important. We used this program and looked into predictions for people with ADHD for words and thoughts.
It is unbelievable. I highly recommend it.
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LPC Board Executive Director, Mary Alice Olsan, told the Times the board is expecting two new appointments “any day now.” The new members will fill positions of Alysius Allen, who resigned in May, and David Legendre who completed his term in November.
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