APA Access | December 11, 2012
Editorial note: APAPO dollars working for you!
Advocates also targeted managed care rate cuts as a violation of federal parity rules.
APAPO made ensuring appropriate Medicare reimbursement for psychologists its top legislative advocacy priority in 2012. Along with grassroots psychologists, APAPO lobbyists called for alteration of the Medicare payment formula with letters and visits to officials in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and members of key health-related congressional committees. The current flawed formula reimburses expensive technology-based specialty services at a higher rate than lower-cost mental health and primary care services.
APA’s Practice Directorate continued its multi-year initiative to evaluate the psychotherapy billing codes and recommend “work relative value units” for the new set of psychotherapy codes that take effect Jan. 1, 2013.
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