Behavioral Health Business April 19, 2024
Despite federal parity laws, new research shows that behavioral health clinicians are reimbursed at rates 22% lower than medical and surgical clinicians.
A new study from nonprofit research institute RTI International may provide behavioral health operators with the evidence to meet with payers to boost reimbursement rates and increase patients’ access to behavioral health services.
“The idea that you would pay a mid-level, master’s level physician assistant more than an MD psychiatrist is very telling,” Dr. Henry Harbin, a parity expert and senior advisor to The Bowman Family Foundation, the non-profit that commissioned the study, told Behavioral Health Business. “It’s a statement of the priorities of the health plans.”
The study also found that non-behavioral medical services are vastly covered...
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