The Bowman Family Foundation (“BFF”) and its tax-exempt subsidiary, the Mental Health Treatment and Research Institute LLC (“MHTARI”), focus on improving the lives of people with mental health and substance use (“MH/SU”) conditions by funding projects, reports, and the development of tools to increase access to MH/SU care.

​​​​In our session on October 9th, we will describe the range of BFF initiatives undertaken to improve access to timely, affordable MH/SU care, including:

• Development of audit tools to evaluate MH/SU provider network adequacy and compliance with mental health parity requirements
• Generation and dissemination of data highlighting disparities in access to MH/SU care
• Underscoring the need for integrating MH/SU care into primary care using the Collaborative Care model (CoCM) and facilitating its broadscale adoption, by:

1. Development of provider resources to help providers implement CoCM
2. Making policy recommendations to regulators, payers, employers and providers
3. Demonstrating the impact of CoCM on patient outcomes, Total Healthcare Costs and Suicide risk/rates
4. Showing the impact of Medicaid coverage and payer reimbursement for CoCM on its adoption

Speakers: Matthias Bowman, MBA and Michael Yuhas, MA

Matthias Bowman, MBA | President of The Bowman Family Foundation

Formerly a member of the Board of Directors of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the American Cancer Society Foundation, the Sylvan C. Herman Foundation and One Mind.

Formerly Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch and Chief Executive Officer of Merrill Lynch Ventures and other private equity funds.

Graduated summa cum laude from Williams College with a degree in economics, and as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School. Subsequently, studied molecular biology, neuroscience and biostatistics.

Michael Yuhas, MA | Advisor to BFF and MHTARI

Founder of Integra ServiceConnect, a company that engages high-need individuals in their own communities.  Formerly, CEO of Health Integrated, an integrated managed care company, and an executive with Magellan Health Services.

Master’s degree in Clinical/Community Psychology from Temple University, with additional graduate training in Psychiatric Epidemiology completed at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and Arkansas Behavioral Health Integration Network. Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Professions in scope for this activity are listed below. Amedco Joint Accreditation Provider Number: 4008163

Physicians

Amedco LLC designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM for physicians. Physicians

should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses

Amedco LLC designates this activity for a maximum of 1.00 ANCC contact hours.

Social Workers

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Amedco is approved to offer social work continuing

education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education

(ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State

and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual

course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Amedco maintains responsibility for this course. ASWB Content Level:

Intermediate. Social workers completing this course receive up to 1.00 continuing education credits.

The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for Social Workers: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NJ, NV, OH, OK*, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WI, WV*, WY OK: Accepts ASWB ACE for live, in-person activities but not for ethics and/or online courses. WV: Accepts ASWB ACE unless activity is held live in West Virginia.

The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for Counselors: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA (LEP ONLY), MD, ME, MO, ND, NE, NM, NH, NV, OK*, OR, PA, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY 

MI: No CE requirement for licensed counselors.

The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for MFTs: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, IA, ID, IN, KS, MD, ME, MO, NC, NE, NH, NM, NV, OK*, OR, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY

AL MFTs: Credits authorized by NBCC or any other state licensing agency will be accepted.

MA MFTs: Participants can self-submit courses not approved by the MAMFT board for review.

MI: No CE for requirement for licensed MFTs.

The following state boards accept ASWB ACE credit for Addictions Professionals: AK, CA, CO, CT, GA, IA, IN, KS, LA, MO, MT, ND, NM, NV, OK, OR,

SC, WA, WI, WV, WY