Health Advocacy & Policy Council

One of the top priorities of the HAPC is 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 HAPC 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 HAPC 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 HAPC will be working with APA central office representatives to push for an expansion of reimbursement codes to support integrated specialty care.

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