May 1, 2025 - The ASAM Criteria 4th Edition. Live, Interactive Webinar. (This Course is NBCC Approved)

The goal of this interactive workshop is to help clinical staff identify the changes from the ASAM Criteria 3rd and 4th Editions and then to be able to implement the ASAM Criteria 4th Edition. Workshop participants will be able to identify at least 2 changes in the 6 Assessment Dimensions, and their corresponding new sub-dimensions within the ASAM Criteria 4th Edition. Workshop participants will be able to identify at least 2 changes in Continuum of Care of the ASAM Criteria 4th Edition. Workshop participants will be able to analyze how harm reduction, trauma informed care and cultural humility have been incorporated into the ASAM Criteria 4th Edition. Through the use of small group activities workshop participants will utilize a case study to determine level of care criteria and then make level of care recommendations in each dimension and level of care sub-dimension, using the ASAM Criteria 4th Edition’s new Dimensional Admission Criteria. Finally, participants will be able to utilize the Level of Care Determination rules to make a final Level of Care recommendation using the ASAM Criteria 4th Edition.

Workshop Timed Agenda:

8:30 am – Zoom webinar opens for attendees to enter, workshop begins at 9 a.m.
 
9:00 AM – History of the ASAM Criteria – (15 minutes)

1. History of The ASAM Criteria 
2. Introduction of Chapter’s 8 (Assessment, Reassessment and Measurement Based Care) and 10 (Dimensional Admission Criteria and Algorithm)

9:15 AM – Overview of Changes in ASAM from the 3rd to 4th Edition (30 minutes)

1. Crosswalk of ASAM 3 vs. ASAM 4 Dimensions
2. Crosswalk of ASAM 3 vs. ASAM 4 Levels of Care
3. ASAM 4 Continuum of Care in Depth
4. Universal Characteristics necessary for each level of care and required for every level of care.
5. Medical and Clinical Necessity Defined

9:45 AM – ASAM 4 Levels of Care (Levels 1 and 2) (45 minutes)

1. Discussion of the changes in the Outpatient Levels of Care
2. Level 1.0: Long-Term Remission Monitoring
3. Level 1.5: Outpatient Therapy
4. Level 1.7: Medically Managed Outpatient
5. Level 2.1: Intensive Outpatient
6. Level 2.5: High-Intensity Outpatient
7. Level 2.7: Medically Managed Intensive Outpatient

10:30 AM – (15 Minute Morning Break)

10:45 AM – ASAM 4 Levels of Care (Levels 3 and 4) (30 Minutes)

1. Level 3.1: Clinically-Managed Low Intensity Residential
2. Level 3.5: Clinically Managed High-Intensity Residential
3. Level 3.7: Medically Managed Residential
4. Level 3.7 BIO: Capacity to provide management of IV medications
5. Level 4: Medically Managed Inpatient

11:15 AM – Assessment, Reassessment and Measurement Based Care – Using Chapter 8 (45 min)

1. ASAM 4’s 3 Assessment Major Moments
2. Dimension 1 and the 3 Sub-Dimensions Using Chapter 8
3. Small Group Exercise 1: The Case of Elena (Assessing Need in Dimension 1)

12 PM – Lunch (On Your Own)

1 PM – Dimensions and Sub-Dimensions 2 – 6 (1:15 min)

1. Dimension 2 and Its Sub-Dimensions
2. Dimension 3 and Its Sub-Dimensions
3. Dimension 4 and Its Sub-Dimensions
4. Dimension 5 and Its Sub-Dimensions
5. Dimension 6 and Its Sub-Dimensions
6. Small Group Exercise 2: The Case of Elena (Assessing Need in Dimension 4)

2:15 PM – (15 Minute Afternoon Break)

2:30 PM – Risk Ratings/Level of Care Determination Rules/Other ASAM 4 Concepts (1 hour)

1. So What Happened to Risk Ratings in ASAM 4?
2. Risk Rating Worksheet Tracker, Level of Care Determination in each Sub-Dimension
3. How to Determine Using the Final Level of Care Recommendation
4. Small Group Exercise 3: The Case of Elena (Level of Care Determination)
5. Continued Stay and Transition Criteria in ASAM 4
6. Concepts Woven into ASAM 4: Trauma-Sensitive Practices, Harm Reduction and Cultural Humility

3:30 PM – Question and answer period, instructions on how to obtain PDF of certificate of completion.