by Rabab Asim | Dec 8, 2020 | CMS, CPT Codes, Physician Fee, Remote Patient Monitoring, Telebehavioral Health, Telehealth
In the most significant telehealth reimbursement advance to date, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have released an early version of the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule. While the current document is still missing information at this point, the...
by Erick R | Nov 14, 2020 | COVID-19, Telebehavioral Health
When analysts enthusiastically described telehealth as a money-saver over the last several decades, they were not referring to the financial impact on traditional payers and health systems. They also could not have anticipated that these powerful institutions would...
by Marlene Maheu, Ph. D | Oct 22, 2020 | EMDR, Telebehavioral Health
I have taken your initial 4 hr course and would like to take more courses. But I need to know if you will cover more about evidence-based research in one of your other training programs. If yes, which training? (My administrator says there is no telebehavioral health...
by Marlene Maheu, Ph. D | Aug 6, 2020 | Telebehavioral Health, Telemental Health, Telepsychology
Given the funding that has recently been pouring into healthcare technology due to COVID-19 in the first quarter of 2020, the behavioral health community can expect that many current innovations will be more visible in the market soon. Healthcare has been changed...
by Marlene Maheu, Ph. D | Jul 26, 2020 | Addictions, Telebehavioral Health
Continued public outcry for telehealth reform has led to a remarkable display of bipartisanship, with representatives of the US House and Senate working on several efforts to support the permanent expansion of telehealth. Introduced in the House, the Advancing...
by Marlene Maheu, Ph. D | Jul 26, 2020 | COVID-19, CPT Codes, Telebehavioral Health
Telehealth billing practices have been challenged and telehealth CPT codes have been turned on their heads during COVID. Changes have been fast and furious, but are finally starting to stabilize, at least temporarily. Now, some of the COVID-19 temporary telehealth...