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Practice Alert: Proposed CMS Reimbursement for LMFTs, LPCs, Addiction Counselors, Psychologists, Social Workers & Others

Telebehavioral Health Institute

See Medicare Telehealth Reimbursement: Act Introduced to Allow Counselors to be Reimbursed by Medicare and the heated discussion inspired in this TBHI Blog. Medicare plays a critical role in implementing these new behavioral health proposals, with almost $1 trillion in claims and providing benefits to more than 63 million Americans.

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2023 Preview of Telemental Health Laws & Behavioral Telehealth Regulations

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Professionals focused on expanding their telehealth services through Medicare will also be delighted to see the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) final 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). Key Medicare Behavioral Telehealth Regulations. The 12/22/22 Senate passage of the 1.7

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Engage! Community Organizing, Coalitions & Infrastructure

Society for Participatory Medicine

Setting care plans with patients is not typically documented such that it could be reused for some other reason. You’ll hear CMS soon – Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Institute of Medicine. I approach activism as I approach pain management. There’s not a lot of it in the EHR data either.

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Weekender 8/2/19

HIStalk Weekender

CMS announces a pilot project to display a patient’s claims data to Medicare fee-for-service providers. Eventually the Data Quality department gets involved, the line managers can’t justify or defend the bad documentation, nor can the clinicians, and some procedures to clean things up are put in place.It Brian Too ).