Question regarding reimbursement - can you help?

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I would like to find out if any creative arts therapists using the listserve know of HMO’s, major insurance carriers or Medicaid/Medicare that are reimbursing since the advent of licensure. Does anyone within the New York community know facilities that are billing for reimbursement for CAT work. If so, who is successful? What companies are reimbursing? At what rate and what is the code they use for CAT services? Even if you could help by pointing me in the right direction, your assistance would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Hilton Executive Director Creative Alternatives of New York jhilton@...

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Hi everyone: I am a psychoanalyst as well as LCAT and, through my contacts in managed care at the hospital at which I work, have attempted to call about five HMOs and insurance carriers. NONE of them utalize LCATS, some expressed some vague interest but it will be a TOUGH sell which we must engage in as an organization as a whole. Doing it piecemeal will not work. Regards, Janet Sullivan

Question regarding reimbursement - can you help?

I would like to find out if any creative arts therapists using the listserve know of HMO’s, major insurance carriers or Medicaid/Medicare that are reimbursing since the advent of licensure.

Does anyone within the New York community know facilities that are billing for reimbursement for CAT work. If so, who is successful? What companies are reimbursing? At what rate and what is the code they use for CAT services?

Even if you could help by pointing me in the right direction, your assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks.

Hilton

Executive Director

Creative Alternatives of New York

jhilton@...

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Hi Janet and the rest of NYCCAT

I couldn't agree more with your thoughts regarding

reimbursement. LCATs, toggether, need to rally to

this cause. At this time, NYCCAT is very busy

focusing on many issues and is not able to head a

committee regarding this issue.

BUT

If ANYONE or persons is/are interested in heading this

committee, please email me, as I and NYCCAT would

support you.

Schrape

Vice President

NYCCAT

--- Janet Sullivan wrote:

> Hi everyone: I am a psychoanalyst as well as LCAT

> and, through my contacts in managed care at the

> hospital at which I work, have attempted to call

> about five HMOs and insurance carriers. NONE of

> them utalize LCATS, some expressed some vague

> interest but it will be a TOUGH sell which we must

> engage in as an organization as a whole. Doing it

> piecemeal will not work. Regards, Janet Sullivan

> Question regarding reimbursement

> - can you help?

>

>

> I would like to find out if any creative arts

> therapists using the listserve know of HMO's, major

> insurance carriers or Medicaid/Medicare that are

> reimbursing since the advent of licensure.

>

> Does anyone within the New York community know

> facilities that are billing for reimbursement for

> CAT work. If so, who is successful? What companies

> are reimbursing? At what rate and what is the code

> they use for CAT services?

>

> Even if you could help by pointing me in the right

> direction, your assistance would be greatly

> appreciated.

>

> Many thanks.

>

> Hilton

> Executive Director

> Creative Alternatives of New York

>

> jhilton@...

>

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

> I couldn't agree more with your thoughts regarding

> reimbursement. LCATs, toggether, need to rally to

> this cause. At this time, NYCCAT is very busy

> focusing on many issues and is not able to head a

> committee regarding this issue.

>

> BUT

>

> If ANYONE or persons is/are interested in heading this

> committee, please email me, as I and NYCCAT would

> support you.

What are other groups (for example counselors) doing to promote being recognized

by

insurance companies? Didn't NYCCAT work with NYS Mental Health Counselors when

lobbying for the licensing bill to be passed. Could we band together with the

other newly

licensed mental health professionals to seek parity with regards to insurance

coverage?