In the recently released 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (the “Proposed Rule”), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) created a new reimbursement pathway for “Digital Mental Health Treatment” (DMHT) devices and services.
Read MoreIn honor of National Mental Health Month, we’re taking a look at how we’re using these apps in our business, what some of our mental and behavioral health clients are doing, three ways the market is growing and changing, and what’s driving this transformation. If you’re an investor, a digital health company, or a healthcare provider, then this conversation is especially relevant for you.
On Monday, August 3, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (the “Proposed Rule”). The 2021 Proposed Rule includes a new code under the Behavioral Health Integration (“BHI”) Collaborative Care Model (“CoCM”) that, if finalized, would offer reimbursement for a shorter increment of time than had previously been available under BHI.
Read MoreIn the April 4, 2016 edition of Part B News, Rebecca Gwilt talks about integration of behavioral health care into acute and primary care settings.
"For individual physicians, simply instituting a process to administer basic depression screening is an easy first step,” says Gwilt. That might be the kind of depression screening attached to annual wellness visits, which may be quite simple (PBN 3/14/16). Or you can kick it up a notch with something like the PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire depression eval), the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) or the 20-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)."
Read MoreOn February 5, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Sylvia Burwell, announced a proposed rule that would update privacy rules regarding substance abuse records--for the first time since 1987. This proposed rule has the potential to ease barriers to streamlined and efficient exchange of patient information across the care spectrum.
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