Financial Assistance

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) should establish a new G-code for a “consultation” fee. Such a code is critical to integrating mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) care into primary care settings by supporting consultative relationships with a psychiatric professional, who would receive a supplemental G-code for providing decision supports.[1]

Congress should amend 42 U.S.C. § 254e(a)(2) to extend and fund the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) to include Veterans’ Health Administration facilities and clinics by explicitly including those facilities and clinics under the definition of the term “medical facility.” [1][2]

Congress should pass legislation allowing for psychologists, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and other non-physician practitioners to receive bonuses when they practice in shortage areas.[1]