Historically, the “overhead” component (practice expense, PE) of the formula for pricing psychotherapy in Medicare has averaged 21% from 2000 to 2020. As a reminder, the national price of a service in Medicare is determined by three components, work, practice expense, and malpractice, which are then moderated by geographic location to produce the local values. …
In the current context, an active discussion I have encountered is the supposed meagerness of the emergency refunds being paid to health care professionals by Medicare. I did a quick analysis. In 2017 (the most recent year for which data appear to be publicly available*), Medicare paid psychologists $490,497,820 for the diagnostic and treatment services …
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The following provides available information about changes in policy and insurance/coverage related to provision of mental health services by telehealth during the pandemic. Clinicians, consumers and interested others are encouraged to provide information to FORM TO REPORT TELEMENTAL HEALTH POLICY so these may be added here as they are reported. FEDERAL Centers for Medicare and …
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