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Highlights of CMS 2023 Proposed Physician Fee Schedule

Social Work Blog

Beginning January 2023, services provided using audio-only communications technology would use modifier 93. In an effort to meet growing mental health needs, CMS is proposing to develop a new code (GBHI1) for behavioral health integration services performed by clinical social workers (CSWs) or clinical psychologists.

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Frozen Grief and Emotional Eating

American Board of Clinical Social Work

Eating problems become a vehicle to communicate matters of the heart that have no other channel. Emotional eating problems and the fear of being fat is one such dialect in which we recruit our bodies to express what we cannot utter in words. Through therapy, patients will learn to sink their teeth into life, not into excess food.

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Animals, Humans at Heart of Veterinary and Animal-Assisted Social Work

Social Work Blog

The strong bond between animals and humans is at the heart of two increasingly popular specialties in social work practice: veterinary social work and animal-assisted social work, explains Kaelyn Lewis, LLMSW-Macro, Director of Membership & Communications at the NASW-Michigan chapter.

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