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Recent Guidance on COVID-19 for Behavioral Health Programs

Health alerts and medication-assisted treatment best practices for staff, clinicians, and nurses working in OASAS settings.
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Overview

Addiction Medicine is the medical management of the disease of addiction in conjunction with substance use disorder treatment to enhance treatment retention, support successful outcomes and promote ongoing, long-term recovery. The historical understanding of successful addiction recovery has been attaining and maintaining complete abstinence from all mood-altering substances, including prescribed medications. As our knowledge of the physiological effects of addiction and brain chemistry has increased and the development of addiction medications expanded, our understanding of successful recovery has changed.

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Service Laboratories
OASAS providers performing on-site laboratory testing or interested in performing on-site laboratory testing (e.g. fingerstick glucose, urine pregnancy, dipstick urinalysis, breath alcohol) must obtain approval from the Department of Health’s Clinical Laboratory Evaluation Program.

Medications Treatment of Use Disorders

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Infection Control
Ambulatory and Residential Program COVID-19 Testing

Record-keeping and notification instructions for COVID-19 testing within OASAS and Office of Mental Health ambulatory and residential programs. Issued June 30, 2020.
Infection Control, Opioid Use Disorder
Opioid Treatment Program Reopening Guidance

Preliminary guidance for reopening Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) services on a regional basis amid New York Forward and the evolving COVID-19 pandemic. 6/26/20.
Coverage and Reimbursement
Maintaining Managed Care Enrollment

NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance guidance on maintaining uninterrupted managed care enrollment for individuals receiving OASAS residential services (Title 14 Part 820) when a case is...
Health Alerts
COVID-19 - Cleaning and Disinfection

Guidance for non-hospital-based Inpatient, residential, and outpatient treatment settings where Individuals under the movement restriction for COVID-19 have been admitted or have visited. Updated 6/5/20.
Health Alerts, Infection Control
Interim Inpatient and Residential Program Guidance

Interim guidance for non-hospital based inpatient and residential addiction treatment providers amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Issued 4/9/20. Updated 6/18/20.