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Ask the Experts: Risk Management and Compliance in Virtual and Private Practice
Explore compliance and risk issues in psychology practice, including virtual care, billing, audits, and recent legal developments.
Ask the Experts: Key compliance and risk management issues for practitioners
Provides guidance on compliance issues such as telehealth, the No Surprises Act, HIPAA rules, and patient records management to help psychologists focus more on patient care.
Ask the Experts: When an attorney calls
Legal and risk management panelists describe different scenarios and provide guidance about how to respond in a way that protects your practice and your patients.
When to Call an Attorney
Addresses ways to make best use of an attorney consultant, how to deal with concerns about legal fees, in what situations are attorneys often not consulted but should be, and more.
Responding to insurance audits of patient records when you are out-of-network
When responding to requests to review a patient’s records, be sure to obtain informed consent, understand record-keeping requirements, and determine the purpose of the audit request.
Reaching Out: Telehealth, Interstate Practice & Technology
Describe the challenges and procedures needed to provide clinical services across state lines when using telehealth platforms.
APA fights to reverse Texas rule that would allow social workers to turn away patients who are LGBTQ or have a disability
APA collaborated with the National Association of Social Workers and other nonprofit organizations to successfully reinstate protections in the Texas Social Work Code of Conduct for patients who are LGBTQ or have a disability.
Promoting telehealth services coverage in private-sector plans
APA and other major mental health organizations join in asking Department of Labor to promote expanded telehealth services coverage for majority of Americans with private health insurance.
Letter to Wellmark BCBS, Re: Continued Recoupment Demands [PDF]
American Psychological Association Services, Inc. has written a second letter with serious concerns about Wellmark’s recent audits of psychologists and other mental health professionals in Iowa resulting in recoupment demands exceeding $100,000.
Letter to Wellmark BCBS, Re: Recent Audits and Recoupment Demands [PDF]
American Psychological Association Services, Inc. and the Iowa Psychological Association are writing with serious concerns about Wellmark’s recent audits of psychologists and other mental health professionals in Iowa resulting in recoupment demands exceeding/as high as $100,000.
Letter to California Department of Managed Health Care, Re: Kaiser Access to Mental Health Care [PDF]
The American Psychological Association, American Psychological Association Services, Inc., and the California Psychological Association would like to offer evidence and expertise in connection with very serious allegations from our members about extreme wait times for follow-up psychotherapy appointments for Kaiser Permanente of California (Kaiser) subscribers.
Transcript Getting Reimbursed Pt. 8 [PDF]
'Should I resubmit claims if I have learned that the insurance company has fixed problems with its processing of testing claims?'
Transcript Getting Reimbursed Pt. 1 [PDF]
Transcript for part 1 of the series of webinars on the new testing codes.
Letter to Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield regarding the CPT© code 90837 [PDF]
APAPO and the Pennsylvania Psychological Association expresses serious concerns regarding correspondence from Change Healthcare to psychologists regarding their use of the CPT© code 90837.
D.C. court hears arguments in managed-care lawsuit
The lawsuit alleged various wrongful acts, including a more than 30 percent cut in psychologists' payment rates that drove mental health professionals off the HMO's panel and left patients without a provider.
