April 24th 2024
The Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 to ban noncompete clauses between employers and workers, citing health care specifically among their reasons for supporting the ban.
Correcting Psychiatry’s False Assumptions and Implementing Parity
May 27th 2015It is a source of shame for our nation that for most Americans in need-especially those with serious mental illness-the mental health system is dysfunctional. Nevertheless, we can fix some of the ways the system is broken.
How Clinicians Actually Use the DSM: Psychiatric Times Survey Results
May 21st 2015Given that one of the primary goals of making DSM revisions is to improve its clinical utility, establishing a baseline of current usage is critical to inform future proposals. For this and other reasons, the authors provide preliminary results from research focused on determining clinicians’ actual use of DSM.
In With the Old, Out With the New
January 21st 2015Everyone who has ever billed a third party for psychiatric care knows that lack of “medical necessity” is the catch phrase used throughout the insurance industry to deny care that the clinician who has actually evaluated the patient has determined is needed.
Seeing the Forest Through the Fees: Earning Your Green Using the New, Confusing CPT Codes
January 16th 2015E&M codes are more complicated to learn, but psychiatrists can now deservedly get paid more for treating their more complicated patients or for engaging in time-consuming activities. Here: a focus on codes 99212 to 99215.
Psychiatry’s Underground Economy
September 30th 2014It seems to this psychiatrist that a significant cohort of his colleagues conduct their practices in what might best be described as an “underground economy”: a system of services and charges disconnected from the conventional constructs by which these activities are presumably measured.