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Today, Valant announced that it has been selected as the EHR partner of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). As a cloud-based EHR and e-billing software provider that works primarily with behavioral health professionals, Valant will help…

It’s happening. As predicted, and in an earlier post by David (Impact of ACA on BHC), healthcare agencies are in serious preparatory mode; a response to the Obama administrations’ rules to expand access to mental health care across the nation.…

There are three major impacts that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have on the Behavioral Health Care industry (BHC). First, it will strengthen behavioral health care benefits through stronger and more complete recognition of parity. Second, we will see…

On Thursday 6/28, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold the Affordable Care Act. The major impact on behavioral health care providers can be divided in to 3 categories: 1. Increased access to care Care access will increase because of…

In July, we wrote about the speculation that Stage 2 of the Medicare incentive program was to be delayed until 2014. On November 30th, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius confirmed that this would indeed be the case. The original regulation would…

Last week it was announced that CMS, the governing body for the new HIPAA version 5010 transaction standards, has extended the compliance deadline to March 31, 2012. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Office of E-Health Standards and Services…