Medicare beneficiaries may have trouble accessing behavioral health care, as clinicians in that field make up a sizable portion of all practitioners who opt out of the program, Behavioral Health Business reports. About 43% of the 28,000 providers who refuse Medicare reimbursement work in behavioral health disciplines such as psychiatry, clinical social work, addiction medicine and psychology, among others according to new data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Read more.
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