As of January 1, 2026, virtual direct supervision is permanent Medicare telehealth policy. A supervising practitioner connected via real-time audio/video now satisfies the direct supervision requirement for most services, not […]
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Three months ago, CMS made telehealth supervision permanent. Your templates, POS defaults, and supervisory documentation standards were supposed to change with it. For most behavioral health organizations, they didn’t. The […]
Nine federal pilot programs are testing behavioral health data exchange standards right now, in real clinical settings, across nine states, with 45 exchange partners and more than $20 million in […]
Behavioral health has talked about interoperability for years as a someday priority. It’s a long-range item on the strategic plan. The five-year IT roadmap never quite makes it to year […]
Somewhere in your organization right now, a vendor has active credentials that should have been revoked months ago. Maybe it’s the login for a patient portal pilot that ended last […]
When behavioral health leaders think about cybersecurity risk, they tend to picture external attackers probing their networks. That image is incomplete. In many organizations, the more pressing vulnerability sits inside […]