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Live Webinar December 13, 2023: It's Finally Here! CMS's 2024 "Instruction Manual" for Including MFTs (and LPCCs) in Medicare

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Course Description:
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has published its Calendar Year 2024 Physician Fee Schedule final rule. The final rule describes how MFTs (and LPCCs) will be added into the Medicare system. Join Ms. Jasper for a 1-hour Law and Ethics presentation to find out what those final rules say about MFT and LPCCs’ inclusion in, and ability to opt out of, Medicare.

Price:
Member: Free
Non-Member: $25

Credit Hours:
1 Hour

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Describe how CMS is incorporating MFTs and LPCCs into the Medicare system through regulation.
  • Identify the steps MFT and LPCCs must take to participate as Medicare Fee-For-Service Providers
  • Identify the steps MFTs and LPCCs should take to opt out of Medicare
  • Describe the information providers who opt out must share with their patients to fulfill their legal and ethical obligations

Contributors

  • Sara Jasper, JD, CAMFT Staff Attorney

    Sara M. Jasper grew up in the Sacramento area. She graduated magna cum laude from California State University, Chico with a B.A. in Journalism. While attending CSUC, Sara Interned for Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C. and served as an editor for the award-winning weekly student newspaper, The Orion. Sara attended The University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law where she served as a library research assistant to professors on campus. During law school, she also clerked for the California Judicial Council, Center for Children, Families & the Courts and for the National Center for Youth Law. Until she moved to San Diego last fall, Sara was on the Board of Directors for Sacramento Court Appointed Special Advocates (C.A.S.A.) and is a member of the State Bar of California. Prior to joining CAMFT, Sara worked at the private firm of Middleton, Young & Minney, LLP where she specialized in education and employment law. Sara also worked as the Legal Liaison and Administrative Officer in the Office of the Chief of Police for the City of Sacramento for three years. She assumed her role with the City of Sacramento's Police Department upon graduating from law school.

December 13, 2023
Wed 1:00 PM PST

Duration 1H 0M

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