Managing Your Practice
The APA’s Office of Healthcare Systems and Financing (OHSF) provides a wide variety of practical assistance to APA members on day-to-day practice management issues encountered by psychiatrists: reimbursement, relationships with managed care companies, coding, documentation, Medicare, Medicaid, establishing a private practice and closing a practice, among others. Members are able to access OHSF assistance by calling the HelpLine at 800-343-4671, sending an email to hsf@psych.org, or downloading the online documents available in "Inside this Section."