News & Press https://ohpsych.org/news/default.asp Fri, 5 Jun 2026 05:17:50 GMT Fri, 30 May 2025 11:43:00 GMT Copyright © 2025 Ohio Psychological Association Medicare RFI Message https://ohpsych.org/news/news.asp?id=702409 https://ohpsych.org/news/news.asp?id=702409
Please take a moment and look at the Request For Information from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).  At the request of the new administration, CMS is gathering information from providers on administrative burdens and other problems imposed by Medicare regulations. CMS is asking questions such as:

“Are there existing regulatory requirements (including those issued through regulations but also rules, memoranda, administrative orders, guidance documents, or policy statements), that could be waived, modified, or streamlined to reduce administrative burdens without compromising patient safety or the integrity of the Medicare program?”

“Are there documentation or reporting requirements within the Medicare program that are overly complex or redundant? If so, which ones? “

This is a great opportunity to give provider perspective on the issues which impose significant barriers to effective treatment and fair practices I so often hear about from you. Comments may be submitted at this website: https://www.cms.gov/medicare-regulatory-relief-rfi

Be sure to respond by the June 10 deadline.

Jim Broyles, PhD
Director of Professional Affairs | Ohio Psychological Association
395 E. Broad St. Suite 310 | Columbus, Ohio  43215
614-266-1301
 
]]> Fri, 30 May 2025 12:43:00 GMT OPA Advocacy Update: January 2020 https://ohpsych.org/news/news.asp?id=487257 https://ohpsych.org/news/news.asp?id=487257 OPA’s Advocacy Committee is working hard on behalf of Ohio Psychologists.

OPA currently has 2 bills being monitored:

  • Introduced on January 8, 2020
  • Referred to Finance Subcommittee on Health and Medicaid on January 22, 2020
  • For more information about PsyPACT, click here.
  • HB 323 - Psychologist Prescriptive Authority
    • Introduced on August 28, 2019
    • Referred to Health Committee on September 24, 2019
    • First hearing - October 1, 2019
    • Second hearing - January 28, 2020
    • Testimony provided by Bobbie Celeste, PhD | Marlin Hoover, PhD, MSCP | Gerald Strauss, PhD

There are several others bills that we are very involved in either through direct advocacy or through coalitions. 

For more information about OPA advocacy efforts and our political action committee (PAC), click here.

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