Archive of entries posted on November 2019

Psychotherapy In Medicare Update – As Predicted, 10 Million+ Sessions Were Provided For The First Time In 2017

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In June 2018 I wrote here, “The exact 2017 numbers are not available yet, but it is all but certain that, for the first time, more than 10 million psychotherapy sessions were provided to Medicare beneficiaries in 2017.” The data are now available: 10,089,575 psychotherapy sessions were provided to Medicare beneficiaries in 2017 (source: https://data.cms.gov/), …

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Pay raise for psychologists?

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Psychologists were recently apprised of a “huge win” in advocacy in relation to Medicare, resulting in “rate increases (which) are strong evidence that CMS recognizes the importance of addressing the psychological factors that affect patients’ physical health problems (and) will make it financially more sustainable for psychologists to provide HBAI [health and behavior] services and …

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