On July 29, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published its annual Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule, which governs a number of proposals affecting coverage and reimbursement for behavioral health services in the next year. APA Services launched a campaign to enable APA members and advocates to provide comments on the proposed rule. Over 12,000 psychologists participated in the campaign, comprising over half of the total comments received by CMS.
On November 1, 2022, CMS issued a final PFS rule covering calendar year 2023. There were several successes for psychologists in this final rule, particularly in the areas of telehealth and integrated care. On November 17, 2022, Chief Advocacy Officer Katherine B. McGuire, MSc, and Chief of Professional Practice Jared Skillings, PhD, sent the following message to participants in the campaign:


