Coordinating Behavioral and Physical Health Care: Legal, Regulatory and Operational Issues in 2007

Legal and behavioral health care experts will discuss many of the legal, regulatory, and operational issues involved in the provision of and coordination and management of physical health care services and behavioral health services.

Issues to be discussed include

• Mental health parity laws on the federal and state level
• The management of comorbid illnesses (patients with both behavioral and "general" health illness)
• What's being done, what needs to be done
• The role of HIPAA
• Questions and Answers