Best Practices In Financial Management For Behavioral Health & Social Services: An Open Minds Publication - Softcover

Mackie Ph.D., J. Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594231427 ISBN 13: 9781594231421

Publisher: OPEN MINDS, 2009

Synopsis

This publication presents state-of-the-art financial management techniques, models, and solutions for organizations to survive. It incorporates best-of-the-best articles and resources from OPEN MINDS 20 year history. Leading industry experts, in addition to OPEN MINDS senior staff, provide valuable financial management information to help improve your organization's overall effectiveness in this compilation of articles.

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About the Author

Monica E. Oss, M.S., is the founder of OPEN MINDS. Ms. Oss is a featured speaker on and author of numerous books and articles on industry trends and strategic marketing and management issues. She leads the OPEN MINDS consulting practice and serves as executive editor of its three information services. Ms. Oss has a broad range of executive experience in both the private and public sectors of the behavioral health and social service fields. Prior to OPEN MINDS, she was founder of a managed behavioral health program, vice president of a U.S. health risk management and underwriting division of an international insurance company, and head of account management for an occupational health services firm. Ms. Oss has addressed dozens of national associations and affinity groups in the field including: the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers; the American Psychological Association; the Child Welfare League of America; the National Community Behavioral Healthcare Council; and the National Alliance of the Mentally Ill. She has also served as the chairperson of the behavioral health track of the National Managed Health Care Congress and chaired the judging committee of the Eli Lilly Behavioral Healthcare Leadership Award. Ms. Oss has led a range of industry research and management consultation initiatives, serving as principal investigator on research projects that included examination of managed behavioral health enrollment, employee assistance program models, rural mental health delivery models, and HMO behavioral health benefits plans. In addition, she has provided strategic consultation to provider and professional organizations, advocacy initiatives, state and county government agencies, pharmaceutical companies, technology companies, and venture capital firms. Ms. Oss is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and has completed her doctoral course work in marketing and health care policy at George Washington University. She serves on the advisory boards of the Shippensburg University Health & Human Service Management Program, the Institute for Behavioral Health Informatics, and DrugRisk Solutions. She has previously served on numerous boards and advisory committees, including that of her local county's mental health/mental retardation oversight board and a regional Head Start program.

About this edition

• Publisher: OPEN MINDS
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1594231427
• ISBN 13: 9781594231421
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190