Psychotherapy code changes confuse providers, payers

March 11, 2013

January brought changes in the business of psychotherapy with a new family of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes that are wreaking... Read more...

2 More States Seek to Ban Conversion Therapy

March 11, 2013

State legislatures in New Jersey and Massachusetts are considering banning conversion therapy for minors while a federal court decides... Read more...

An Ethical Prohibition that Isn’t — And Never Really Was

March 11, 2013

A decade after the 2002 APA Ethics Code and the HIPAA Privacy Rule should have settled the matter many psychologists continue to believe... Read more...

The Carousel of Violence in Society

March 11, 2013

In December the violence involved semi-automatic weapons and a score of dead elementary school children. There were also dead teachers,... Read more...

Psych-Oncology Much Needed in India

March 11, 2013

The Big C. In India, this is synonymous with death, at least as far as general perception goes. And this fear is so entrenched in the... Read more...

RxP Movement Regrouping

January 14, 2013

Columbus, Ohio – The RxP movement to expand the number of jurisdictions that permit properly trained psychologists to prescribe psychotropic... Read more...

Track and Market Outcome Results

January 14, 2013

Private practitioners are continually challenged to come up with new ways of attracting clients. Rather than learning trendy new treatments... Read more...

Documenting Client Claims of Sexual Abuse

January 14, 2013

With the cases from the Penn State football sexual abuse scandal continuing to grow, we will soon see an explosion of unrelated cases... Read more...

What Malpractice Insurance Isn’t

January 14, 2013

A brief discussion with psychologists at any risk management seminar quickly reveals that few of them have ever read their malpractice... Read more...

Medicare to Cut Payments for Not Meeting Reporting Requirements

November 7, 2012

Apathy is turning into urgency as clini-cians who bill under Medicare learn that financial penalties are slated for 2015 for non-compliance... Read more...