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Mar 24, 2023
Take Advantage of Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) CPT Codes with CarePaths Measurement-Based Care by Bruce Wampold PhD

This year, the American Medical Association added a number of new CPT® codes to its catalog that will allow mental health providers practicing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to bill their patients’ insurance for Remote Therapeutic Monitoring services. These additions are expanding upon the existing set of RTM codes which focus on specific aspects of physical health. CarePaths users whose clients are receiving CBT and completing assessments in the CarePaths Connect mobile app for patients can now bill for time spent training their clients on using the app (CPT code 98975) as well as time spent completing and discussing the assessments (98980 for the first 20 minutes and 98981 for each additional 20 minutes during a month). To make it even easier, CarePaths’ Automated Measurement-Based Care by Bruce Wampold, PhD provides your patients with a set of assessments expertly chosen by one of the world’s leading psychotherapy researchers to capture all the most important therapy metrics, including symptom severity and the therapeutic alliance. Patients are automatically notified to complete these assessments on a weekly basis, allowing their providers to bill using code 98978 once per 30-day period as well. By using all of these new codes, therapists can receive up to $100 more per patient per month for CBT from many payers. If you haven’t already done so, be sure to activate CarePaths Connect for free to access these transformative tools, which can improve client outcomes and reduce dropout rates no matter what kind of therapy you provide. And feel free to sign up for a live training session if you want help setting up CarePaths Connect, using MBC, or taking advantage of the new codes.

Dec 8, 2022
Talking to Patients as Part of Measurement-Based Care

As we have discussed previously, measurement-based care (MBC) involves assessing patient progress and the therapeutic process throughout the course of treatment to improve the quality of the service being delivered. Of course, the clinician will naturally gather many of their own insights from interacting with the patient. MBC supplements this information by providing the patient’s perspective on their symptoms, well-being, and their relationship with the clinician.

Nov 29, 2022
Dr. Bruce Wampold on How to Make Therapy Better

This interview was conducted at the Request of Jordan Harris, Ph.D, LMFT, LPC who offers his own counseling services as well as resources for other counselors at www.jordanthecounselor.com.

Nov 22, 2022
Introducing the Making Therapy Better Podcast

CarePaths is proud to be sponsoring the Making Therapy Better Podcast, hosted by CarePaths’ own Chief Clinical Officer Bruce Wampold, PhD. In this new series, Professor Wampold will be interviewing some of the most important figures in psychotherapy research and practice about their contributions to the field, as well as discussing the future and ongoing evolution of mental health care. Many of these conversations will touch upon Measurement-Based Care, a central feature of Bruce’s work with CarePaths and the mission of the Making Therapy Better initiative. The podcast is currently available on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon and Apple Podcasts and will soon be available on all major platforms, so be sure to find it on your favorite one and follow to get notified when new episodes are released. And please share it with other clinicians, clients, or anyone else who could be interested in this exciting new venture.

Sep 29, 2022
Administering Assessments: The Pragmatics of Measurement-Based Care (MBC)

Once a clinician or a system of care has made the commitment to implement MBC, we soon find that the devil is in the details. Like most initiatives, the pragmatics involved in MBC, particularly administering the assessment to patients and collecting responses, is critical to its success. The challenge is to collect useful and actionable information without burdening patients, clinicians or administrators. In this blog, I will discuss the major challenges to administering assessment to patients and touch upon the CarePaths solution. As with any systemic initiative, there are tradeoffs to consider, depending on the context and priorities.

Sep 15, 2022
What to Measure In Measurement-Based Care

Now that we have agreed (hopefully) that Measurement-Based Care (MBC) is a method that improves psychotherapy outcomes, we are faced with the logical next question: What should be measured?

Sep 8, 2022
An Introduction to CarePaths’ Approach to MBC

Measurement-based care (MBC) involves assessing patient progress and therapy processes through the course of therapy to improve the quality of the service being delivered. A number of different labels have been used for this practice, including routine-outcome monitoring (ROM), practice-based evidence, feedback informed treatment (FIT), among others. Whatever name is used, the research is clear: Providing information about patient progress to the therapist improves outcomes, especially for cases that are not on track to be successful. MBC is now considered an evidence-based practice and the American Psychological Association is developing practice guidelines for its implementation.

Aug 25, 2022
CarePaths Connect is Live!

We are excited to announce that CarePaths Connect, the new Digital Front Door for therapists and patients is now available. Current users of CarePaths EHR can upgrade to CarePaths Connect for free by having your practice admin sign into their account and select CarePaths Connect under the Admin tab. Once CarePaths Connect has been activated for the practice, every clinician will find a link on their homepage that says “Configure Digital Front Door.” After clicking this link, use your regular login information and you’ll be able to set up your profile as you’d like it to appear to users of the app. Then you can send an invitation to your current patients to download the app, available for iOS and Android. Your Digital Front Door will also be visible to new patients using the app to search for a therapist. You can list your open appointments so patients can conveniently request time with you. New patients will also be able to enter their insurance information in the app to find out which therapists accept their plan and what their copay will be. For more detailed instructions, see the release notes in the System Updates section of the Help Center in the CarePaths EHR as well as this series of tutorial videos.We will also be setting time aside to run live trainings on the new system with our users. You can find more information on how to register for these trainings in the release notes.

Aug 3, 2022
Webinar Recording Now Available

Thank you to all of our users who participated in the first Making Therapy Better webinar last Friday. We had a good turnout and heard from a number of attendees how helpful they found the discussion of the value of Measurement-Based Care and advice from our esteemed speaker, Bruce Wampold PhD, on how to implement it.

Jul 1, 2022
Making Therapy Better Webinar Announcement

As part of CarePaths’ mission to improve the quality of mental health care, we are announcing a new event, website, and initiative that we’re calling Making Therapy Better. As a key part of this initiative, CarePaths is welcoming Bruce Wampold, PhD as Chief Clinical Officer. Dr. Wampold is Professor Emeritus of Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of the classic text, The Great Psychotherapy Debate. He is bringing his decades of experience as a clinician and researcher to help implement evidence-based strategies for improving the quality of mental health services.

Aug 27, 2018
What do Outcomes Monitoring Systems really measure?

Behavioral health professional and regulatory organizations are stepping up support for routine outcomes monitoring (ROM) (also referred by by terms such as Outcomes Monitoring, Feedback Informed Treatment, Measurement-Based Care, etc). They encourage clinicians to monitor patients’ responses to treatment and identify those at risk of a bad outcome and those who are progressing as expected. ROM is also promoted to compare the effectiveness of clinicians. But a soon to be published analysis suggests ROM systems have overstated their case and recommends caution by clinicians using them.

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