ACEs Billing Essentials: A Tactical Approach
About
This webinar will explore the fundamentals of billing and reimbursement for Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) screening. Tailored for health care professionals and administrators, participants will learn about the billing cycle of an ACE screen and clinical response and key steps to building a billing workflow. The presenters will share strategies that they have used successfully in clinical settings, with a focus on aligning financial practices with prevention, screening, and treatment for ACEs and toxic stress.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss ACEs Aware billing guidance related to screening reimbursement eligibility and documentation requirements
- Review the billing cycle of an ACE screen from screening to reimbursement
- Describe the key steps to building an ACEs billing workflow
Professional Credit
- This activity provides the following types of credit: AMA, AAPA, APA, ANCC, ASWB, ABIM-MOC, ABP-MOC.
- 1.0 credits are available.
- Activity document
Featuring
Chris Bradley is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist specializing in clinical work with families who have experienced trauma, and the implementation and training of trauma-informed care and ACE screening in primary care settings. Chris was a practice coach for the California ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC), where she helped develop an evidence-based framework for ACE screening and response called Trauma Informed inquiry for Adversity, Distress, and Strengths, or TRIADS, led by Dr. Alicia Lieberman. This relational framework helps healthcare team members talk with patients in the context of a trusting healing relationship. She worked with Dr. Lieberman at the Child Trauma Research Program at San Francisco General Hospital/UCSF, and with Dr. Nadine Burke Harris at the Center for Youth Wellness.
Jamie Ruiz joined ACEs-LA Network of Care to support ACE screening and response implementation across multiple Los Angeles County DHS clinics. Additionally, in her role at UCAAN, Ruiz provides technical assistance related to billing for ACE screen claims to clinics across California. Ruiz earned her B.S. in Public Health at Cal State University, Northridge and is currently pursuing a MPH at UCLA, focusing on Health Policy and Management. She is the author of Thank You for Sharing, a Book about Feelings, a book for children published by ACEs-LA.
Leena Singh, DrPH, MPH is a public health leader with expertise in program design and strategy, clinical technical assistance, research, evaluation, and training in the areas of adolescent sexual health and childhood adversity. She currently is a Lead Coach and Adviser for the Training & Implementation Department at UCAAN. Dr. Singh was previously a Coach & Consultant for the California ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC), a statewide learning collaborative led by the UCSF Center to Advance Trauma-Informed Healthcare and the Center for Care Innovations. She received her Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from Columbia University and holds a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Nina Thompson oversees the team at the ACEs Aware-funded ACEs-LA Network of Care that is responsible for the implementation of ACE screening and response at the LA County Department of Health Services (DHS), the largest health system in California. In her role as Special Projects Director at the UCLA-UCSF ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network (UCANN), Thompson co-leads the UCAAN Innovation Lab, which provides technical assistance to clinics across California. She graduated from UC Berkeley and has more than 20 years of experience in project management, data analytics, grants management, and community engagement.