​The ASAM Fundamentals of Addiction Medicine 40-Hour Program is an innovative educational program empowering primary care and other providers to identify, treat, and/or refer patients at risk for or with addiction. The curriculum is designed for healthcare professionals who received little addiction education during their medical training.​

This webinar helps build knowledge of The ASAM Appropriate Use of Drug Testing in Clinical Addiction Medicine document, which guides provider decisions about drug testing, as no universal standard exists today.

Nearly 20.5 million Americans suffer from a substance use disorder (SUD), yet only 1 in 10 people with a substance use disorder (SUD) receive treatment. This treatment gap leaves millions without the proper treatment, expanding the addiction medicine workforce is vital. During this webinar, we will discuss how physicians can become board-certified in Addiction Medicine under the new medical subspecialty.

This free CME webinar series is designed to prepare physicians and their billing staff for the basics of modern healthcare payment models and methods of incorporating these models into addiction treatment practice. Presented by a healthcare reimbursement expert, viewers will learn the language used by health payers to improve understanding of billing and coding techniques. Some tips about determining patient coverage for services, handling prior authorization requests, and submitting claims to payers will be included. The first in the series created to examine some of the basic and advanced issues that many may face when working with insurance companies and other health payers. The second webinar will be held on March 7th, and the third session will be a panel discussion held at the Annual Conference with ASAM members employed by health insurers.

ASAM began addressing the adversarial prior authorization process with managed care with the 1991 ASAM Criteria. After 20 years of research, ASAM has released CONTINUUM – The ASAM Criteria Decision Engine™ nationwide. This workshop will provide the practical exposure to help active clinicians and program administrators understand how to organize, introduce and use this new clinical standard for success. The workshop will review counselor and patient evaluations from the alpha, beta and national demonstration projects. Attendees will review evaluation findings, the Harvard Business School study, the national survey of state requirements, and undergo a tour of the tool. The workshop will explain how to use CONTINUUM to address the federal Parity Act and the summer 2015 federal Medicaid specifications for external third party review of all substance use disorder placements. Attendees will assess the software’s ease of use, learning curve, impact on clinical assessment and potential for managed care reform. The discussion will examine the practical issues of HIPAA and 42cfr data privacy and how these support the national patient data registry.