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!

Oct 29, 2013
Impact of 2013 CPT code changes on Psychiatrists' Income

This is the first in a series of data analytic articles addressing financial and clinical trends in behavioral health practice. We base our analysis on the data in our emr and practice management system which represents a broad cross section of clinicians nationwide. We are reporting data on outpatient claims only. We have excluded inpatient and residential levels of care. The data also only represents reimbursement from the primary payer.

Oct 24, 2013
Kurt Peters, MD named Chief Medical Officer of CarePaths

CarePaths is pleased to announce that Kurt Peters, MD has accepted the position of Chief Medical Officer of CarePaths, Inc. He is a private practice child and adult psychiatrist who served for over 20 years in the US Air Force, retiring recently as a Lt. Colonel. We are also happy to report that Dr. Peters is married to a psychologist–which clearly attests to his good judgement!– and is a pilot. Over the last several months Dr Peters has provided invaluable assistance to CarePaths with a variety of practice issues, including selecting, testing, implementing and rolling out a new eprescriber, selecting a new credit card vendor, and developing new clinical tools and decision support systems. We at CarePaths are delighted to have Dr. Peters on our team–he knows the nuts and bolts issues of running a clinical practice. In the coming months he will be sharing his ideas–and listening and responding to your ideas–in this blog space.

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Will Obamacare Help Your Practice?

Psychologists increase income with new CPT codes