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7/14/2010
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LCSW Medicare Presentation for 2010
National Government Services provides Medicare Seminar for NYSSCSW
On July 14 Kathy Dunphy and Jim Bavoso of National Government Services gave a clear and informative presentation on what we can expect from Medicare. The in-person seminar at Metrotech Center in Brooklyn was accompanied by a teleconference.
Highlights of the talk were:
Clarifying the fee schedule for 90801 and 90806. (There have been four different versions this year!) Currently 90806 is $105.21 for physicians, $78.91 for social workers. 90801 is $178.88 for physicians, $134.16 for social workers. These rates are in use until November 30, 2010.
Under mental health parity, the portion of the fee paid by Medicare is 55% in 2010; it will go up stepwise to 80% in 2014.
Expect a letter in August if you have not already enrolled in the PECOS database. You will not get paid in 2011 unless you enroll. Expect that Electronic Funds Transfer will become mandatory when you do.
The future calls for increased use of Electronic Claims Submission to replace paper claims. You are encouraged to seek a billing service or use Medicare billing software.
In October 2013 the ICD-10 will become the basis of diagnoses covered by Medicare.
The requirements for documenting psychotherapy visits are on the NGS website. Providers are encouraged to create a template for recording necessary information under Medicare regulations, anticipating the possibility of an audit.
For problem solving, your first step should be to call one of these numbers:
Medicare: More Questions Answered
Since October 2008 Virginia Lehman, LCSW, our Medicare Liaison, has been conveying our questions to a designated contact at National Government Services. Below are some of the answers she has received. See The Clinician, Spring 2009 for an earlier Medicare Q & A.
Standards for Clinical Documentation
Standards for Clinical Documentation and Recordkeeping: This PDF sets forth the standards for clinical documentation and recordkeeping in clinical social work practice.
Vendorship and Managed Care Report
This document is a compilation of committee activities for the past several years. In it is important information regarding state regulations, insurance company practices and how this impacts you in your professional work.
Out of Sorts:
Meeting the Challenge of Working with Anxiety and Mood Disorder
Our unstable economy, politics, war and the threat of global warming leave underlying traces of sadness and
anxiety upon the psyche and body of both therapist and patient, a feeling of “out of sorts” unconscious, difficult
to articulate. Suicides/homicides occur too often when depressive symptoms and hidden rage remain the
unspoken known in families, schools, the workplace, among friends, and within couples. This conference will
address the profound importance of connecting and listening to both the clinician’s own and the patient’s split
off states of awareness.
