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(CY) 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule: Key Provisions Impacting Clinical Social Workers

Social Work Blog

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed CY 2022 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) issued on July 16 includes a variety of provisions that are relevant to clinical social workers (CSWs) who are participating providers in Medicare. The proposed cut is particularly harmful to CSWs. Telehealth.

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Update: Nursing Home Visitation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Social Work Blog

The association offers resources to help social workers engage with clients, colleagues, family, and friends about COVID-19 vaccination. Collaboration with clients in all aspects of LTSS planning and provision … to maximize dignity and self-determination.” Social Work Role in Reducing COVID-19 Transmission.

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Update: CMS Guidance for Nursing Home Visitation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Social Work Blog

The association offers resources to help social workers engage with clients, colleagues, family, and friends about COVID-19 vaccination. Collaboration with clients in all aspects of LTSS planning and provision … to maximize dignity and self-determination.” Social Work Role in Reducing COVID-19 Transmission.

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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Bipolar Bandit

I’m in my 14 th year as a mobile emergency psychiatric social worker. Their stories motivated me to become a better social worker and write Breakdown. If they don’t qualify for inpatient, I can refer them to outpatient treatment programs or give them self-help material. What is your main work role?

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From the people who brought you AFST: The most dangerous "child welfare" algorithm yet

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. As is so often the case with these algorithms, they are less prediction than self-fulfilling prophecy. . ● There is no opportunity for any family to opt-out or deny the use of their personal data.

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UPDATE: Federal Rule to Prevent Surprise Health Care Billing – Application to Clinical Social Workers

Social Work Blog

We are also advocating on behalf of clinical social workers with key federal regulatory agencies and other stakeholders. not enrolled in any health plan) and self-pay (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, Indian Health Service or the Veterans Affairs health system). Background on Federal Rule.

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News Items – November 10, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Social Workers from Mississippi and Alabama come together. The Riley Center hosted over 150 social workers and students this afternoon for a two-day conference on different ways social work affects the community around them. How The National Association Of Social Workers Are Supporting Domestic Abuse Survivors.