Care Management Technologies Announces New Client: Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas

Morrisville, NC, August 13, 2015 (Newswire.com) - Care Management Technologies (CMT), a data-driven population health analytics company that specializes in behavioral health, today announced its newest client, Association of Mental Health Centers of Kansas or ACMHCK.  Seven of the 27 ACMHCK members serving as Medicaid Behavioral Health Homes will use CMT’s ProAct to demonstrate effectiveness in improving quality of care and lowering costs for consumer’s enrolled in their health home model.

“We selected CMT because of their national reputation as the “go to” behavioral health analytics company and the ease and efficiency of use associated with their online analytics tool, ProAct,” said Walt Hill, Executive Director of High Plains Mental Health Center, one of the “CMT 7.”  Along with High Plains Mental Health Center, the CMT 7 includes: 

"Through ProAct, CMT's unique data analytics and decision-support tool, we can bring insight and action to comprehensive data sets, and enable clients to speed the implementation of best practices - optimizing care and reducing variability that leads to poor outcomes and high costs."

Carol Duncan Clayton, PhD, CMT CEO

• Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, Inc., David Johnson, CEO
• Compass Behavioral Health, Ric Dalke, Executive Director
• COMCARE of Sedgwick County, Marilyn Cook, Executive Director
• Family Services & Guidance Center, Brenda Mills, CEO
• Horizon Mental Health Center, Michael Garrett, CEO
• Prairie View, Inc., Jessie Kay, President & CEO

“We’re excited and honored to be working with ACMHCK and the CMT 7.  Our goal is to demonstrate effectiveness and expand our footprint across the larger ACMHCK membership over the next year.  CMT’s focus is on helping customers like the CMT 7 who serve complex needs behavioral health consumers and dedicate their professional lives and special expertise to improving quality of care and lowering costs for this population,” said Carol Duncan Clayton, PhD, CMT CEO.  “Through ProAct, CMT’s unique data analytics and decision-support tool, we can bring insight and action to comprehensive data sets, and enable clients to speed the implementation of best practices – optimizing care and reducing variability that leads to poor outcomes and high costs.”

ACMHCK’s CMT 7 will utilize ProAct’s ability to combine clinical and claims data to gain a clear, 360° view of consumer care and needs.  ACMHCK will also take advantage of ProAct’s more advanced features – analyzing consumer data against an anonymized claims database with more than 800 million Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance claims data points; tracking comparative performance improvements based on customized and industry metrics; providing action based analytics through interoperable platforms at the agency level and utilizing CMT’s risk alerts to prevent emergency room and hospital readmissions.  In addition, the CMT 7 will benefit from groundbreaking work by CMT’s clinical and health experts, which ensures that the latest evidence-based behavioral health research outcomes are incorporated directly into the analysis engine and ready for application and interventions at the consumer specific level.  

Using ProAct, the ACMHCK CMT 7 will be able to organize and analyze all available data in order to better understand and manage risk, taking into account everything from adherence markers and gaps in care to costly co-morbid conditions and underlying addiction or substance dependency concerns.  Drawing on more than 200 proprietary and validated clinical rules, the CMT 7 will use ProAct to guide improvements in decision-making that foster more efficient and effective delivery and management of care.

About the Association of Community Mental Health Centers (ACMHCK)

The Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas Inc. advances the interest of CMHCs and the individuals they serve.  Towards this end, the Association provides legislative representation, offers leadership and professional education, highlights model practices and programs, and identifies resources for addressing the challenges faced by local mental health authorities.

About Care Management Technologies

Care Management Technologies (CMT) has broad expertise and extensive experience in both behavioral health and advanced technologies.  CMT works with forward-thinking payer and provider organizations to address the opportunities and challenges presented by multimorbidity health populations: managing risk, and ensuring efficiency in clinical services and operations. In addition to creating proprietary health information technology, CMT has developed an extensive array of evidence-based rules that promote improvements in care, both behaviorally and medically.  CMT works with payers and providers across the US and Canada serving over 220 agencies touching 19 million consumer lives.

Contact Information

Carol Duncan Clayton, PhD
Chief Executive Officer
Care Management Technologies
919-674-2547
[email protected]
www.cmthealthcare.com