The new CMS guidelines allow Mental Health Counselors and Marriage & Family Therapists to join as Participating Medicare practitioners! For these credentials, the Providers must be licensed at the Master’s level or above. After several years of professional counselors advocating to get CMS to accept them and expand access to MH services for Medicare members, CMS is finally allowing them in!
Understand HOW to complete the Medicare application for these provider and WHICH application to complete for each of them. Expand access to the Medicare community your providers and organization is serving. Positively impact the revenue cycle!