New York innovations include new integrated license from OMH and OASAS

“The biggest reform we're working on is integrated behavioral health,” Chinazo Cunningham, M.D., commissioner of the New York Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS), told ADAW last week. “We're changing the system to allow less administrative burden. Instead of having two sets of regulations, one from the Office of Mental Health [OMH] and one from OASAS, there will be a single set of regulations.”