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Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule for CY 2022

Social Work Blog

The removal of the geographic restrictions continues, allowing the beneficiary’s home as an originating site for telehealth services for the purposes of evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of a mental health disorder. Audio-Only Communication. Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs).

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Federal Rule to Prevent Surprise Health Care Billing

Social Work Blog

Application to Clinical Social Work Services. Under a new federal rule to protect consumers from surprise health care bills, clinical social workers and other health care provider types must, effective January 1, 2022, provide a good faith estimate of expected charges. December 2021.

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Celebrate Black History Month with NASW Press—20% Off Select NASW Press Books and eBooks!

Social Work Blog

These changes affect all elements of our society, underscoring the need for an informed and knowledgeable public that can understand, respect, and communicate with people of diverse backgrounds. Poverty and financial insecurity can have devastating consequences to one’s physical and mental health, even threatening basic survival.

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Federal Rule to Prevent Surprise Health Care Billing

Social Work Blog

Application to Clinical Social Work Services. Under a new federal rule to protect consumers from surprise health care bills, clinical social workers and other health care provider types must, effective January 1, 2022, provide a good faith estimate of expected charges. See January 5, 2022 update.

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Highlights of CMS 2023 Proposed Physician Fee Schedule

Social Work Blog

This would extend the waiver of the geographic location requirement, delay the in-person requirement for mental health services, and continue to allow the use of audio-only and audio-video technology. Beginning January 2023, services provided using audio-only communications technology would use modifier 93. Behavioral Health.

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Sticking With It

American Board of Clinical Social Work

It means trying many creative avenues to release those words that have been locked in scary, traumatized realms of the partners’ minds and arduously resisting communicating to the couple that they are in any way being uncooperative with the search. Our modern mental health care systems work against us in this realm of sticking with it.

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Can You Be a Social Worker with a Psychology Degree Easily?

Social Work Haven

CONTENT YOU WOULD LOVE TO READ ON SOCIAL WORK HAVEN We’ll delve into the pivotal role of a master’s degree in social work (MSW) and the rigorous standards set in these programmes. Can you become a social worker with a psychology degree UK? Is a psychologist a social worker? The answer is yes.