COUNCILS & COMMITTEES

Health Advocacy & Policy Council

COUNCILS & COMMITTEES

Health Advocacy & Policy Council

The Health and Advocacy & Policy Council is a Division 38 Council that will be collaborating with staff from APA central office on some impactful advocacy & policy issues as they relate to the field of health psychology. One of the top priorities of the Council during their term will be to address the limited options for billing reimbursement codes for the full range of health psychology and behavioral medicine services offered in specialty healthcare settings such as cardiology and neurology, along with many other medical specialty settings. The Council has recruited a team of motivated colleagues to help advocate for a broader framework of billing reimbursement for health psychology services in healthcare specialty settings, and to develop scenarios for value-based care models. In addition, a major focus of the Council is to identify approaches to broaden the access of care for a diverse population of patients who would benefit from health psychology services, and to diversify the workforce delivering these services. The Council will be working with APA central office representatives to push for an expansion of reimbursement codes to support integrated specialty care.



Members


Kim Smolderen, PhD

Chair of the Health Advocacy & Policy Council

Valeria Martinez-Kaigi, PhD

Associate Chair

Jan Mooney

Student Advisory Council Liaison

Matt Schooler, PsyD

Secretary

Noel Quinn, PhD

Member

Andrew Champine, PsyD, LP, MSHM

Member