Monitor on Psychology - December 2011 - (Page 16d)

YOUR PRACTICE ASSESSMENT IN ACTION TOP ISSUES PRACTITIONERS CARE ABOUT Importance of APAPO advocacy activities: * Protecting reimbursement for psychological services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.5% Legislative advocacy efforts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.5% Helping states protect the doctoral degree as the standard for psychologist licensure . . . . . . 87.3% * Percentages indicate total respondents rating the activity as “Extremely Important” or “Important” Level of concern about practice-related issues: * Health care reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.0% Managed care/private-sector reimbursement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.2% Medicare reimbursement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.6% * Percentages indicate total respondents rating themselves as “Extremely Concerned” or “Concerned” about the activity SOURCE: 2011 Survey of Practice Assessment Payers 9 Achieving restoration payments for Medicare psychotherapy services. In February 2011, following months of delays, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that psychologists would soon begin to receive retroactive restoration payments for Medicare psychotherapy services provided between January 1 and July 1, 2010. The restoration payments were one aspect of many Medicare payment changes included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of March 2010. The ACA provision followed the December 31, 2009 expiration of an earlier five-percent payment restoration for psychotherapy services. The APA Practice Organization successfully advocated for reinstatement of the psychotherapy monies for all of 2010, retroactive to January. A later law extended the additional five percent Medicare psychotherapy payments through 2011. mental, behavioral and substance use health professionals. As federal rules to implement the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act take effect, the APAPO is advocating for full inclusion of psychologists under the law’s incentive programs. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) introduced legislation on March 10, 2011 to allow mental health practitioners and facilities to seek reimbursement for purchasing electronic health record-keeping systems (EHRs). Introduction of a companion bill by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) was pending as of September 2011. for psychologists’ eligibility for 10 Advocatinghealth records incentive payments. electronic The APA Practice Organization gained bipartisan support for House and Senate legislation that would extend eligibility for electronic health record incentive payments to If you are an APA member who is licensed by a state board of psychology and you haven’t yet paid your Practice Assessment for 2012, this is a reminder that you can do so online at my.apa.org. Log in using your APA user ID and password, and click on “Renew Your Membership for 2012.” You can also call APA Membership Services at 1-800-374-2721. APAPO SUPPLEMENT TO THE MONITOR ON PSYCHOLOGY http://my.apa.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Monitor on Psychology - December 2011

Monitor on Psychology - December 2011
Letters
President’s Column
Contents
From the CEO
Willpower Pioneer Wins $100,000 Grawemeyer Prize
Single-Sex Schooling Called Into Question by Prominent Researchers
Maternal Depression Stunts Childhood Growth, Research Suggests
For Boys, Sharing May Seem Like a Waste of Time
Good News for Postdoc Applicants
In Brief
Treatment Guideline Development Now Under Way
Government Relations Update
Psychologist Named Va Mental Health Chief
The Limits of Eyewitness Testimony
Judicial Notebook
Random Sample
Time Capsule
Deconstructing Suicide
Questionnaire
A Focus on Interdisciplinarity
A Time of ‘Enormous Change’
The Science Behind Team Science
Good Science Requires Good Conflict
A New Paradigm of Care
Speaking of Education
Science Directions
New Labels, New Attitudes?
Psychologist Profile
Early Career Psychology
Unintended Consequences
Better Options for Troubled Teens
Saving Lives, One Organ at a Time
New Journal Editors
APA News
Division Spotlight
Guidelines for the Conduct of President-Elect Nominations and Elections
American Psychological Foundation
Personalities

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