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About the course
The problems with insurance reimbursement are numerous and growing. CSWA has been tracking the most common problems that have affected LCSWs in the past year. This webinar will summarize the problems that many members have experienced in the past year, and sometimes for much longer. Additional issues that seem to have died down will also be discussed. There will be significant time for attendees to submit questions about the insurance challenges that they face. Here are some of the main issues which will be addressed: - Insurers engaging in “clawbacks” which are a demand that payments made be returned to the insurer, sometimes many months after they have been made. - Refusal of insurers to pay for more than one session a week. - Questioning the repeated use of 90837. - Questioning length of treatment for more than a year. - Insurers returning to “prior authorizations” for some kinds of mental health treatment. - Stagnant reimbursement for LCSWs for the past 20 years. Some of these issues have been around for over 10 years but have had an uptick in the past year. It is likely that this increase is due to the likelihood that mental health parity rules are being made more stringent and that insurers will have to comply with coverage of mental health conditions that they have avoided until now. The new parity rules should help reduce the ways that insurers are keeping reimbursement for LCSWs stagnant. Sending complaints to your insurance commissioner can also have a positive effect on working with insurers. PLEASE NOTE: There are no continuing education credits available for this program.
Meet the Instructors, Laura Groshong, LICSW and Judy Gallant, LCSW-C
Laura Groshong, LICSW has been in clinical practice for the past 43 years, and was a Registered Lobbyist in Washington for five mental health organizations for 25 years. She has been the Director of Policy and Practice for the Clinical Social Work Association nationally since 2006 and, through the Mental Health Liaison Group, worked on passage of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equality Act of 2008, the Affordable Care Act, and many other pieces of legislation that support and benefit LCSWs. Laura has written and lectured extensively on clinical and legislative issues around the country. Ms. Groshong served as the Interim Chair for the Social Work Compact Commission. Judy Gallant, LCSW-C received her MSW from Columbia University School of Social Work in 1980. She has worked in variety of practice settings, including with foster children and parents in NYC; providing child, adolescent and adult therapy at a family service agency in Baltimore; and as the Coordinator for the Psychological and Educational Resources and Testing Center at Jewish Family Services in Baltimore. She currently has a private practice in Silver Spring, MD. Ms. Gallant has served as the Director of Legislation and Advocacy for the Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work since 2014, and as the Chair of the Maryland Legislation and Advocacy Committee since 2012. After being a member of CSWA for many years, she became Deputy Director of Policy and Practice in 2022.
Upon purchase, this program is available to access for 1 year.
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Insurance Challenges and Possible Solutions for LCSWs
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Insurance Challenges and Possible Solutions
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