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Quick Policy Review: HIPAA for Mental Health Professionals

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Mental health and addiction professionals are legally required to ensure that patients and clients can trust their private information is protected. Practitioners can fulfill these HIPAA expectations by following HIPAA guidelines for mental health and addiction professionals. Psychotherapy Notes.

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AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Doing this enabled patients to know that a telehealth visit did not mean less quality. "Then we had to ensure the correct coding and documentation was satisfactory for insurance billing purposes." " They also had to ensure that all staff were aware of the types of telehealth visits that were beneficial to patients.

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Do Mental Health Apps Sell Your Client’s Sensitive Data to Data Brokers?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A February 2023 report published by researcher Joanne Kim outlines the results of a two-month study of how data brokers sell sensitive data mental health data collected from mHealth mental health apps. These companies include BetterHelp , Cerebral, GoodRX, Monument, and Workit Health.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Is there an American Civil Right for health care? Kudos to NABIP for developing this document and taking a leadership position in supporting health care as a civil right for all consumers, emerging as health citizens, in America.

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Mastering Mental Health Intake Forms in 2023

Mend

Discover the best practices for collecting mental health intake forms in 2023. Mental health intake forms furnish essential information for providers and care teams. Care teams use mental health intake forms to obtain a patient’s medical history, current symptoms, and other pertinent data in order to deliver patient care.

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Improving Handovers in Mental Health Emergency Telehealth

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Emergency departments (EDs) nationwide face numerous challenges, including the demand issue of many mental health patients and few mental health professionals to serve them. Emergency telehealth services have been tested and conducted for decades, often in Medicaid telehealth and safety-net settings.

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Reimbursement Repercussions for April 2023 End of Public Health Emergency

Telebehavioral Health Institute

While the official end of the public health emergency (PHE) was extended to April 2023 for many federal government programs, two federal actions will further extend the deadline for federal Medicare reimbursement until at least December 31, 2024. Other repercussions of the end of the PHE include the return of HIPAA and licensure enforcement.