Jan 16, 2014
New findings suggest female clinicians better able to engage patients in treatment

An analysis of our data show that women clinicians are much better at engaging new patients in treatment than are male clinicians. We define engagement as coming for follow up treatment after an initial intake. We wanted to focus on non-medical providers, so we looked at Diagnostic Evaluation without a medical component (90791) between January 1, 2013 and September 30, 2013. Our data came from 13 practices that had been using Carepaths for at least 6 months as of the first of 2013. We limited our sample to patients who were first entered into the Carepaths database in 2013 because we wanted to minimize the number of patients who may have had a prior episode of care with these providers. We considered a patient to have been engaged in treatment if they received any service other than the 90791 during between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2013. Patients who did not receive another service before the end of 2013, were classified as not engaging in treatment.

Dec 12, 2013
Is Psychiatry becoming a concierge service? New Study show Psychiatrists less likely than other doctors to accept insurance.

A study published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry found that:

Nov 12, 2013
Will Obamacare Help Your Practice?

Beginning in 2014 under the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) all new small group and individual market plans will be required to cover ten Essential Health Benefit categories, including mental health and substance use disorder services. Mental health and substance abuse will be covered at parity with medical and surgical benefits. Federal subsidies will help an individual making less than $46,000, or a family of four making less than $94,200 purchase insurance. The government estimates 7 million people will sign up for Obamacare in 2014 and 30 million or more over the next three to five years. So it is likely that mental health professionals will be seeing patients covered by the ACA in the next several years.

Nov 6, 2013
Psychologists increase income with new CPT codes

Some psychologists are increasing their incomes with the new 2013 psychiatric CPT* codes. Our data are based on claims paid data from the Carepaths EMR. The findings:

Nov 6, 2013
A message from Kurt Peters, MD, Chief Medical Officer

What an honor Carepaths Inc appointing me as their Chief Medical Officer. Such an exciting time in medical technology, and what a thrill to work with such a forward-looking company!

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New findings suggest female clinicians better able to engage patients in treatment

Is Psychiatry becoming a concierge service? New Study show Psychiatrists less likely than other doctors to accept insurance.