News

January 2009

The Software Solution for Home-Base Services
In 2006 CSI’s fiscal department began to look for a system to assist with Medicaid billing for the youth division’s homebased services. After meeting with a few consultants Sam Ahilan, CFO, and Marlene Thomas, VP of Finance, selected Seginus MD. This company came with over 20 years of experience in information technology and software development, many specifically in the healthcare industry. They were particularly impressed that the system could be customized to suite the specific need of CSI home-based programs.

October of 2006, a group of CSI staff began to customize the software known as Seginus Advanced Behavioral Care. The first edition was piloted in Lehigh Pennsylvania in March of 2007. Marlene Thomas, John Stein, Susan Pribyson, Alesia Brooks, Jill Hoch, Dan Ensor and Greg Lindsey have all been key participants in the system origination and ongoing development.

The Home-Base Services Edition of SeginusABC is specifically designed for therapists, clinical/system supervisors and administrators. The system currently encompasses the Multisystemic Therapy (MST) treatment model and flows in accord with the MST analytical process. Additional home-based treatment models including Functional Family Therapy (FFT) and Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) are being incorporated as well.

Seginus provides an integrated and cost-effective solution to facilitate:

Goal-Oriented Treatment Planning
Replicating all aspects of the MST Do-Loop
Fit Diagrams to assist in identifying primary and systemic strengths
Assisting therapists an supervisors maintain fidelity to the MST model
Creating Weekly Summary Reports required for compliance

Research consistently supports the link between therapist adherence to MST treatment principles and youth outcomes. Therefore, strong quality assurance is essential to the realization of the goals of MST treatment. This software assists therapists in maintaining fidelity to the model and assists supervisors in tracking quality assurance through built-in tools.

The Home-Base edition has undergone several revisions since its first roll out in 2007. It is now used in Pennsylvania, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey and Connecticut. Nicole Milia, trainer and developer with Seginus, takes the time to remind staff during training to thank the Pennsylvania staff for being the guinea pigs in the early days. Great credit goes to Jill Hoch and her staff for rolling out a program in the midst of their on-going program site expansion, that now benefits all of the programs.

Seginus has now been officially endorsed by MST Services. CSI is now a partner with Seginus and we are actively marketing this product to other MST providers.