More mental health and addiction counselors would get Medicare bonuses in underserved areas.
This bill would give mental health and addiction counselors, along with doctors, extra payments for serving Medicare patients in areas with few providers. This aims to bring more behavioral health care to places that need it most. These new payments would be 15 percent of the service cost.
Today, only doctors get an extra 10 percent payment for providing general medical services to Medicare patients in areas with too few health professionals. After this bill, doctors and a wider range of mental health professionals would get an extra 15 percent payment for providing specific mental health and substance use disorder services. This applies to areas with too few mental health professionals.
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