Medicare Mental Health Benefits

Find a therapist, psychologist who accepts Medicare & ACA Obamacare 

Ways to #Find a Therapist

 

Google Search for ONLINE Therapists

Here’s what I googled for online therapists. Check with them and ask what Insurance Plans they take. Then double check on the official Insurance Company provider list.

How much does a therapist get to see you?

 

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Mental Health ACA/Obamacare under 65

Read it directly in the Sample EOC Evidence of CoverageUse Ctrl F search feature

#Individual Therapy

 

There are a lot of people suffering from a mental health condition who need therapy. And there are a lot of therapists who want to help them. But both sides believe the insurance companies that are supposed to bring them together are actually keeping them apart.  Nearly half of therapists in California don’t take insurance as reimbursement rates don’t provide a living wage,

Most insurance companies pay therapists in their networks between $60 and $80 per session. In the San Francisco area and Los Angeles, therapists say the market rate for therapy is more like $150 to $200 a session.

“The second thing is the paperwork. For an hour of psychotherapy you spend a half-hour on paperwork,   CA Health

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Medicare Part B Outpatient Mental Health

 

Behavioral health integration services

If you have a behavioral health condition (like depression, anxiety, or another behavioral health condition), Medicare may pay for a health care provider’s help to manage that condition if your provider offers the Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model.

The

Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model 

is a set of integrated behavioral health services that includes care management support if you have a behavioral health condition. This care management support may include care planning for

  • behavioral health conditions,
  • ongoing assessment of your condition,
  • medication support,
  • counseling,
  • or other treatments that your provider recommends.

Your health care provider will ask you to sign an agreement for you to get this set of services on a monthly basis. You pay a monthly fee, and the Part B deductible and coinsurance apply.

 

 

More Details & Limitations on Coverage

 

This article is intended for physicians, providers and suppliers submitting claims to Medicare contractors (carriers and/or Part A/B Medicare Administrative Contractors (A/B MACs) for mental health services provided to Medicare beneficiaries.

The Social Security Act (Section 1862(a)(1)(A)) excludes from coverage services that are not “reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis or treatment of an illness or injury or to improve the functioning of a malformed body member.

This booklet gives the following Medicare mental health services information:

Covered and non-covered mental health services

  • Eligible professionals
  • Eligible professionals commonly used Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes
  •  National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI)
  • Provider charts
  •  Assignment
  • Outpatient psychiatric hospital services
    • Family psychotherapy (with the patient present and their treatment is the primary purpose) or (without the patient present, is medically reasonable and necessary, and their treatment is the primary purpose)
    • Individual and group psychotherapy (individual therapy with one or more therapists and more than one individual in a therapy session with one or more therapists)
    • Psychoanalysis (therapy that treats mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements)
  •  Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)
  •  Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC)
  •  Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) services
  •  Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF) services
  •  Medical records requirements
  •  Coverage period
  • Same day billing guidelines

12 #Step Meetings & Therapist Confidentiality

 

The Twelve Traditions encourage members to practice the spiritual principle of anonymity in the public media and members are also asked to respect each other’s confidentiality.[42] This is a group norm,[42] however, and not legally mandated; there are no legal consequences to discourage those attending twelve-step groups from revealing information disclosed during meetings.[43] Statutes on group therapy do not encompass those associations that lack a professional therapist or clergyman to whom confidentiality and privilege might apply. Professionals and paraprofessionals who refer patients to these groups, to avoid both civil liability and licensure problems, have been advised that they should alert their patients that, at any time, their statements made in meetings may be disclosed.[43] wikipedia.org

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