Vol2013issue7

Volume 2013; Issue 7

NASWAZ Offers Members Opportunities for Leadership, Education & Advocacy

The Arizona Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers continues to strive to unite and support social workers for the betterment of communities. NASWAZ’s efforts would not be possible without the demonstrated leadership of our committed volunteers. There are many opportunities for involvement with your professional association including:

Leadership: Our Board of Directors is composed of volunteers and is a great way for members to gain leadership and non-profit board experience, and to influence the direction and operation of the Chapter. Each year, we have positions open for Branch Representatives, Student Representatives (MSW & BSW), and Officer posts. To learn more or to submit your name for consideration during our upcoming election season, complete the form located at http://www.naswaz.com

Each Branch offers the opportunity for involvement via the planning efforts for Social Work Month, networking events, and other activities. Please consider attending this rewarding way to connect with your colleagues!

Education: NASWAZ is proud to offer continuing education opportunities throughout Arizona and beyond via our Continuing Education Series in-person workshops and online options including the Online CE Institute with shared contents from participating NASW state chapters. We also have the NASW Professional Education and Training Center website. As a member, you receive special rates on workshops while supporting your association!

Are you a gifted presenter and have an area of expertise that you would like to share with professional colleagues via an in-person or online workshop? Please contact us at [email protected].

Advocacy: NASWAZ and the Public Policy Committee host the Social Work Day at the Legislature events annually. We also use our online network and action alerts to provide social workers an efficient channel to reach elected officials and to make their voice heard. To get involved with the Public Policy Committee efforts, contact the Public Policy Committee at [email protected]. The AZ NASW Political Action for Candidate Election (PACE) Committee will begin activities soon. This is our Committee that works to influence public policy through elections and candidate endorsements. If interested, contact [email protected].

Featured in this issue

Who to ContactTo get involved in NASWAZ, please contact any of the following:

BRANCH 1(Gila, LaPaz, Maricopa,Pinal, & Yuma Counties)

Carol Lopinski Dori DiPietro

BR1 Co-Chairsemailto:[email protected]

BRANCH 2(Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima

& Santa Cruz Counties)Josefina Ahumada

BR2 Chairemailto:[email protected]

BRANCH 3(Apache, Coconino, Mohave

& Navajo Counties plusPayson, Sedona & Cottonwood)

Rhonda TalaswaimaKelly O’DonnellBR 3 Co-Chairs

emailto:[email protected]

BRANCH 4(West Yavapai County—Prescott & sur-

rounding area)Deborah Nelson

BR 4 Chair emailto:[email protected]

STATEWIDEPACE Chair

Angela Schultzemailto:[email protected]

PUBLIC POLICY ChairMinerva Gant

emailto:[email protected]

CCNLI (Nominations Chair)Bobbie Anderson

[email protected]

NASWAZ Chapter OfficeJeremy Arp

Executive Director(480) 968-4595

emailto:[email protected]

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Board of Directors

Suzanne SchunkPresident

Tim SchmaltzPresident-elect

Patrick ShockleyVice President

Eric AlfreySecretary

Connie MitchellTreasurer

Branch 1Dori DiPietroCarol LopinskiLaura MastersHeidi MeyerArthur SirianniOpen PositionOpen Position

Branch 2Josefina AhumadaJudy Pike Nancy Kaye

Branch 3Kelly O’DonnellRhonda Talaswaima

Branch 4Deborah NelsonOpen Position

BSW Student RepJohn Duffy

MSW Student RepVictoria Ramirez

Password ProcedureFor your first log in, you will use the following information to log in:User Name: The user name is your first name and your last name with no spaces in between. (ie. janedoe) *Please note that this is the first name in your member record. If your NASW membership has you listed as “H. Jane Doe”, then “H” is your first name for the purposes of this log in. (ie. hdoe) Once you log in the first time, you can set your preferences to change your user name to whatever you wish.

Password: naswaz

Once you have logged in, the website will direct you to choose a user name and password that you can remember.

NASWAZ Opportunities................................................1Executive Director’s Corner...........................................3President’s Pen...............................................................4CPS Call to Action ........................................................5Branch Events................................................................7CE Series Workshops....................................................11Public Policy Committee..............................................11Branch 1 Networking Opportunities.............................12Career Opportunities.....................................................13Legal Issue of the Month...............................................14Major Changes in 2014 For Clinical Social Workers....17

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The Executive Director’s CornerBy Jeremy D. Arp, MSW, ACSWExecutive Director

NASWAZ cosponsors Border Services TourIn early November, I had the opportunity

to participate in a Border Social Services Tour organized by Laura Melrood/RightsWork and co-sponsored by NASWAZ Branch 2.The tour included social workers, attorneys, acadmics and advocates. We visited and received presentations from the Mexican Consulate in Tucson; Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, AZ; Repatracion Humana (Instituto Nacional de Magracion), Casa Nazaret women’s shelter, and Kino program sites in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.

The agenda provided an introduction to the intersection between child welfare and the immigration process. The goal was to increase knowledge of services for separated children and families from organizations on the Mexico side, including governmental, non-governmental and faith-based organizations. The trip provided a glimpse of the emotional trauma experienced by separated, detained and deported families. The group explored the ethics of immigration advocacy and ways to create a dialogue and resource sharing among professionals. NASWAZ will schedule additional trainings to highlight this important issue and to enhance the practice of social work professionals in Arizona. Resources to help understand the interesction of child welfare and immigration systems are available at:

Shattered Families: The Preiolous INtersection of Immigration Enforcemnt and the Child Welfare System http://www.raceforward.org/research/reports/shattered-families

A Social Worker’s Tool Kit for Working with Immigrant Families

http://www.americanhumane.org/assets/pdfs/children/pc-toolkit-trauma-immigrant-families.pdf

Conference a Success!This year, we had nearly 250 attendees at our

Annual Confernece in September. Thank you to all who attended as a participant, award winner, and speakers! Special Thanks to our volunteers from the ASU School of Social Work - Tucson Component Student Council, ASU Social Work Student Organization, Mesa Community College, and the NASWAZ Board of Directors who graciously helped make this a successful event! Keep an eye out for a call for proposals for next year’s conference!

Social Work Month 2014NASW celebrates Socia Work Month in

March. The theme for 2014 is “All People Matter.” Branches are planning around this theme, and Branches 1 and 2 have selected venues and dates. Check our website for details!

BBHE ChangesSB 1374 makes significant changes to

the Board of Behavioral Health Examiners. Supporting information to provide social workers guidance on implementation is available at the NASWAZ website under “Chapter News. A presentation to the Clinical Society regarding SB 1374’s impact on licensees has been held and NASWAZ will schedule additional presentations. Stay up to date on implementation by checking the “Chapter News” link at http://www.naswaz.com.

Update on NASWAZ Website ChangesNASWAZ’s new web partner Your

Membership.com (YM) continues to transition naswaz.com to a new platform. The complete transfer will occur in mid-December.

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The President’s PenBy Suzanne M. Schunk, LCSWNASWAZ Chapter President

It is Halloween as I am writing this and I cannot help but reflect upon the memories associated with this holiday. How thrilling, yet scary, for children to get dressed up and go out in the dark of night—and pass so many other adults and children in fantastic costumes—and then to go to strangers’ homes and be given candy! Such delightful shivers of fear mixed with delicious sweet rewards!

The past couple months have also been both a thrilling and a scary time for our country—celebrating the implementation of the long awaited “Obamacare” Affordable Care Act; while also fearing the impact of the government shut-down and the financial crisis that have been frightening for our most vulnerable. Here in Arizona, unlike any other state, we even stopped TANF checks—until the powerful voices of many horrified advocates and news media caused them to be reinstated. NASW-AZ was part of this advocacy effort—thank you to all of you! The only resolution Congress could enact is to delay all of the problems until early 2014—a frightening start to our New Year!

We are also now beginning the season of Thanksgiving feasts. It is harvest time and food is supposed to be bountiful with overflowing tables of wonderful, traditional dishes bringing families together in celebration and thanks. How it is then, that Congress has voted to cut the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (food stamps)? The $39 Billion cut will harm countless numbers of families struggling to make ends meet. We all know that the basics for life are food, clothing, and shelter; yet, our own government is denying food to vulnerable children and adults. These cuts begin November 1st and will certainly

worsen the already difficult plight of so many of our vulnerable families—and greatly dampen their Thanksgiving dinners. The need for social workers only increases: our skills and knowledge, our empathy and compassion, our ability to find resources and give hope when it would seem there could be none, and our voices as advocates for the vulnerable.

Your voices are certainly needed as NASW-AZ enters the new legislative season. Our Public Policy Committee will be choosing legislative priorities dur-ing the next month and then planning for the Social Work Days at the Legislature to be held in February. Add your voice to this planning by joining the Public Policy Committee or at the very least, by watching for the email alerts about our priorities and taking those few critically important minutes to contact your legis-lator. Our voices have made a significant impact in the past—we must continue our fight for social justice.

I also recognize how draining our work so often can be and how important it is for us to take time to relax and recharge. The fight is never done and the needs of our vulnerable populations are continual. So I encourage you to take some special time during the holidays to be with those whom you love and to enjoy people, activities, and places that will allow you time to become refreshed. May your holidays be truly joyful.

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The AZ Department of Economic Security Director Clarence Carter admitted publicly on 11/21/13 that at least 6,000 reports to the child abuse hotline were pulled out of investigations and listed as “not investigated” and then set aside without further investigation—despite the fact that there is no such legal code for reports to the Hotline. According to law, all reports must be investigated. This was accidentally discovered by the Office of Child Welfare Investigations. Upon review of these cases, Child Protective Services (CPS) discovered that about 2,900 of these “not investigated” reports were determined to need investigation and that many were actually serious enough to warrant immediate investigations. Five thousand of these reports were since January 1, 2013 with the reminder going back as far as 2009.

This is extremely disturbing since it means that 6,000 families (and likely 12,000 or more children) have concerns about abuse and neglect and are known to AZ CPS, yet our system has done nothing to protect these children. Child welfare experts know that reports to CPS are only a snapshot of all that is occurring in a family; in too many situations, the actual abuse or neglect is far worse than what is reported. The public did its duty in reporting; CPS failed in its duty to respond and place the safety of children first and foremost.

This terrible revelation only compounds the already known frightening statistics of a CPS system that is overloaded, underfunded, and in severe crisis. AZ has a record high number of children in CPS custody—despite CPS report and substantiation rates that are lower than national standards. Forty-three states have declining foster care admissions; of the seven states experiencing an increase in out-of-homecare, AZ has shown the highest increase by far. CPS staff struggle with impossibly high CPS caseloads (2-3 times above national standards) and the staff turnover rate remains high.

These devastating impacts on children and families have occurred since 2009—when legislative budget

CPS 3 Year Crisis Continues to Grow: 6,000 Allegations Not Invesitgated

cuts resulted in the loss of the community family support program that diverted and served low priority CPS cases; slashed the DES proven evidence-based child abuse and neglect prevention home visitation program by 75%, and decimated child care subsidies, domestic violence services and other critical supports that assisted families to become stable and prevented abuse and neglect.

CPS social work is one of the unique professional occupations in our society, akin to first responders such as fire fighters and police officers and other similar front line stressful, “life and death” professions. Yet we have hardly ever given them the tools --- the training, clinical supervision, back-up, multidimensional team and clinical support, community resources, workload standards and expectations, and technology with the pay and benefits that honor and compensate them for the stress, scope and nature of the CPS work. Current compensation and resources do not address long term turnover nor honor the importance, complexity, stress, difficulty, and dignity of the CPS work.

According to DES, CPS staffing remains 70% below established standards. CPS suffers from a nearly a 30% turnover rate. CPS is one of the most challenging jobs in our community. Yet CPS staff is not valued by their compensation levels.

There is no doubt that CPS requires substantial additional resources to address the historical neglect and increasing demands upon CPS. While DES is requesting substantial additional CPS workers, over 444 new staff, the DES budget request includes no funding for differential responses authorized by the last Legislature. The Department’s request does not include any serious resources for preventing child abuse and neglect nor for preventing foster care placements. Early intervention and prevention practices must be seriously considered now.

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by Suzanne M. Schunk, LCSWNASWAZ President & Tim SchmaltzNASWAZ President-Elect

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NASWAZ extends a special thank you to our 2013 Conference sponsors:

Platinum SponsorCare 1st HealthcareFirst Things First

Gold SponsorSouthwest Human Development

Casey Family Programs

Silver SponsorsArizona Office of Problem Gambling

ASU School of Social WorkCommunity Partnership of Southern Arizona

Maricopa County Public HealthReva Inc.

Bronze SponsorCommunity Bridges, Inc.

Arizona’s Children Association

Exhibit SponsorsHospice of the Valley

Sierra TucsonChild & Family Social Services

Adult Care Connection, Inc.Sequel Care of Arizona/Mingus Mountain Academy

Video SponsorsCaring Senior Service

Child Crisis Center

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Branch 1 Branch 1 Co-Chairs: Dori DiPietro and Carol Lopinski Networking meetings continue at Tempe Marketplace the third Thursday each month. Much more to come

including lunch and learns, bagel and learns ... check the Chapter calendar for updates!Branch 1 will host a Social Work Month event in Phoenix on Friday, March 7th! Mark your calendars now!

Branch 2Branch 2 Chair: Josefina AhumadaBranch 2 is looking to plan activities in the near future. The next Branch 2 Business meeting will be

November 25th at 4:30pm at the ASU Tucson Component. The Sierra Vista Lunch and Learn/networking events continue. Lunch and learn events will occur in Tucson. The Branch 2 retreat has been rescheduled for Saturday, January 25th from 1pm - 4pm.

Branch 2 will host a Social Work Month event in Tucson on Friday, March 28th! Mark your calendars now!

Branch 3Branch 3 Co-Chairs: Rhonda Talaswaima and Kelly O’Donnell Branch 3 will be discussing activities for Social Work Month (March) 2014 at our monthly networking

meeting at KickStand Kafe. Join us to help brainstorm, this year’s theme is “All People Matter”, if you cannot attend, please e-mail Kelly O’Donnell any ideas you have at [email protected] and she will be glad to include them in the discussions. Hope to see you there!

Branch 4Branch 4 Chair: Deborah NelsonBranch 4 continues to host networking meetings monthly. The meetings are held the second Wednesday of

each month. Planning for future events occurs at the networking meetings, and it is a great opportunity to share information and resources. Mark your calendars!

Branch events happening near you

Searching nationwide: Employers can widen their search by posting with our national office. Go to http://careers.socialworkers.org/. The Social Work Career Center is a career website where social workers can search national job listings and find professional development and career resources that span across the duration of a social worker's professional career. The Career Center is also a resource to social worker employers. Employers of social work can post job ads for a fee to find and recruit qualified, credentialed, and licensed social workers across the country.

Use Social Work Career Center to expand your job searching

CPS (Continued from P. 5) The Governor must approach the CPS budget

request in a much more systemic way and include significant additional funding for proven child abuse and neglect prevention programs, in-home family support services, family preservation, substance abuse resources, differential response approaches, and other community services which will begin to stave off the growing foster care caseload. While foster care is absolutely necessary in some cases to protect children, child welfare experts know it is the least desirable response in most cases.

The DES budget request must take a much more systemic approach. The deep cuts to the health and human services safety net have all negatively impacted the CPS system. Without an adequate safety net, the CPS system doesn’t have the broader community resources to do its assigned job for children with families. Moreover, families do not have the community support systems to avoid getting involved in the CPS system.

As social work professionals, we need to urge the Governor to provide the vision and the pragmatic resources to protect Arizona’s most vulnerable children. Write or call the Governor and urge her to do right thing for Arizona’s children and get CPS on the right path now.

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Children’s Action Alliance povided the following link to an “action alert.” Follow the link below:

http://bit.ly/19RcpYv

Or contact the Arizona Governor’s Office directly via the link below:http://azgovernor.gov/Contact.asp

We are pleased to let you know that the 2014 NASW national conference call for proposals is now open athttp://www.aievolution.com/nsw1401. It will close January 15, 2014 at 11:59pm EST.

NASW invites submissions of proposals to present at the 2014 NASW National Conference Social Work: Courage, Hope, and Leadership which will be held July 23-26, 2014 in Washington, DC. Social workers are leaders of change and strengthen the safety net of society.

They bring hope, and inspire people to find their cour-age and fulfill their potential. Join renowned keynote speakers and gain new skills at innovative workshops. Submit a proposal to present, and network with 2,000 of your colleagues, at NASW’s meeting of the profes-sion—the 2014 NASW National Conference

To be considered, session proposals must be received online by 11:59pm EST on January 15, 2014. Due to space limitations, not all deserving proposals can be accommodated. Reviewers will prioritize proposals based on a balanced program as well as the listed review criteria. You will be notified via email regard-ing your proposal decision by March 2014. Please note that presenters must pay the special presenter registra-tion price of $375 for NASW members and $575 for non-members.

NASW 2014 Conference Call for Proposals Now Open

Congratulations 2013 Award Winners!Thank you to all who attended the NASWAZ Annual Social Work Conference on Friday, Sept. 20th at the

Black Canyon Conference Center in Phoenix. The events served as a wonderful opporutnity to network, earn CEUs, and to celebrate our annual state award winners. You can view the award winners response videos online at http://www.youtube.com/naswaz.

NASWAZ statewide award winners are chosen from Branch-level award winners who are honored every March during Social Work Month. Do you have a colleague or community member that you would like to nominate for an NASWAZ Branch level award? Complete the nomination form online at http://www.naswaz.

Pictured from right to left: Special Recognition recipients Senator John McComish and Representative Heather Carter; Public Elected Official of the Year Senator Anna Tovar; Citizen of the Year Kim Williams; Social Worker of the

Year Adrienne Decker-Delgado; and Lifetime Achievement Award Winner JoAnn De-Colle.

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Clinical Supervision Workshop closes out 2013!

December 6, 9am to 4pm in Tucson: Clinical Supervision Beyond the Basics presented by Robert Kafes, DCSW, ACSW, LCSW, BCD (6 CEUs, designed to satisfy the AZBBHE requirement for 6 hours of Clinical Supervision training in subsequent licensure periods)

2014 CE Workshops Coming Soon! New workshops for spring are in process! All NASWAZ Members will receive a special mailing once all CE workshop events are finalized. Topics include: Clinical Supervision; Generational Distinc-tions in Ethical Decision Making; Serving LGBTQ Individuals and Families; Ethical Issues Working with Immigrants, and much more!

ONLINE REGISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE

www.naswaz.com

The NASWAZ Chapter is pleased to welcome Minerva Gant as the Public Policy Committee Co-Chair! Minerva brings 10 years experience in child welfare and has served as a case manager, supervisor and policy writer. As a policy specialist, she worked in legislative analysis and policy writing for the division. Minerva earned a B.A. in Psychology/Criminal Justice, an MBA in International Management, and currently enrolled in the MSW program at the Arizona State University School of Social Work.

Minerva has led the committee to chose dates for next year’s Social Work Day at the Legislature events: February 19 and February 27, 2013 at the Historic Senate Chambers. Space will be limited and a registration link for the events will be available begin-ning in January. The Committee will work to select priorities moving forward and identify bills to track once the 2014 session is underway this January! Do you have an interest in public policy and legisla-tive efforts in Arizona? If so, please contact the Public Policy Committee Chair directly by email at [email protected].

NASWAZ Welcomes New Public Policy Chair!by Jeremy ArpNASWAZ Executive Director

Need CEUs Right Away?

Check out the Online CE Institute with shared workshop content from participating NASW

state chapters. Go to http://naswwa.inreachce.com/

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For complete job descriptions, please visit www.naswaz.com and click on the Arizona Career Center. You will need to sign in with your username and password.

Does YOUR company have an opening for a social worker? If so, you or your company representative can place an advertisement on our online Career Center for FREE. It’s easy.

Just go to www.naswaz.com and to the “Career Center” heading. A fly-out menu will appear, and the second choice is “Arizona Career Posting.” Just click on that link, fill in the blanks, and your ad will be instantly live and available to our members. Jobs listed currently include:

Program Manager - Unaccompanied Minors Refugee Program

Find Career Opportunities through our websiteDisease Management Case Manager

Behavioral Health Community Case ManagerChild Protective Service Unit Supervisor Behavioral Health positions - Phoenix, AZPart-Time Staff ClinicianClinical Instructor/Clinical Assistant ProfessorCase Manager II Licensed TherapistClinical ManagerMilitary & Family Life Counseling ProgramMilitary & Family Life CounselorsExecutive Function TrainerMental Health ProfessionalLCSWElder Care CoordinatorChild ClinicianBilingual Therapist, Older AdultsPRN Clinical Social WorkerInternational Social Work

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HIPAA Highlights for Social WorkersBy Sherri Morgan, Associate Counsel, LDF and Office of Ethics & Professional Review ©October 2013. National Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved.

Introduction

The 2013 Omnibus HIPAA Rule became enforceable by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services on September 23, 2013. The Legal Defense Fund has maintained responsibility for providing HIPAA compliance resources through a variety of modalities since 2003. This includes organizing materials and resources on the NASW website, providing announcements and HIPAA reminders and tips via Facebook and emails, offering national and state-based Webinars for members, and making arrangements with outside vendors and experts to provide online courses and sample HIPAA

Legal Issue of the Month:

compliance documents. The Omnibus HIPAA Rule resulted in significant changes to the existing regulations and required a review and update of much of NASW’s existing storehouse of HIPAA content and resources.

.......To read this article in its entirety, please go to this link and use your National username and password:

http://bit.ly/1baKKIvThe Legal Issue of the Month is published by

the National office of NASW and is a members-only benefit.

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Major Changes in 2014 For Clinical Social Workers*

There are several major national changes affecting the clinical practice of clinical social workers in 2014. Clinical social workers should prepare for these changes to avoid reimbursement denials and overpayment requests. Changes are in the areas of claims, coding, diagnosing, and quality measures, and include the following:

• Revised CSM-1500 Form. Clinical social workers submit claims for reimbursement on the CMS-1500 Form. The National Uniform Claim Committee (NUCC) has updated the form and approved a transition timeline for the version 02/12 of the 1500 Health Insurance Claim Form. From January 6 thru March 31, 2014, clinical social workers may use either the current or revised form. Beginning April 1, 2014, clinical social workers must submit claims only on the revised CMS-1500 Claim Form, version 02/12. Claims will be rejected if they are not submitted on the revised form by April 1, 2014.

• The International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) will be implemented on October 1, 2014. It is a classification system of diagnoses used to identify diseases and will replace the ICD-9-CM codes. The changes in ICD-10-CM will not affect the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes used by clinical social workers to perform psychotherapy services. The ICD-10-CM code sets are available free of charge atwww.cms.gov/ICD10. Clinical social workers should begin preparing for this transition by:

1. Enrolling in training to become familiar with the new changes and how to implement them in practice

2. Communicating with third-party payers about their specific requirements regarding these changes

3. Updating electronic systems, billing statements, and other forms

4. Establishing an emergency fund to cover unexpected reimbursement delays during the early months of implementation.

by Mirean Coleman, LICSW, CT • The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5) coding system will be implemented also on October 1, 2014. The DSM-5 is harmonized with the ICD-10-CM and there is now one classification system for coding of diseases. Although the American Psychiatric Association is recommending implementation of the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria by December 31, 2013, many insurance companies have reported they may not be prepared to implement the diagnostic criteria changes at that time. Since the implementation date of the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria may vary per third-party payers, NASW recommends members to contact insurance companies with whom they are paneled to determine their implementation date.

• The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) will subject clinical social workers and other health care professionals who are Medicare providers to a 2.0 percent penalty fee in 2016 if they do not use quality measures when performing services to Medicare beneficiaries during the year of 2014. PQRS is a program promoting the reporting of measures to determine quality services. To avoid this 2.0 percent penalty in 2016, clinical social workers must use measures developed by the PQRS for 2014 when providing psychotherapy services to Medicare beneficiaries.

NASW is available to provide technical assistance to members as these major changes are implemented. Clinical social workers may e-mail their questions about the changes to [email protected]

Additional information about the 2014 changes is available online at the DSM-5 Web site: http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx; Information about PQRS is available online at http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/PQRS/How_To_Get_Started.html; CMS-1500 information is available online at: http://www.nucc.org/; ICD-10-CM Information is available online at www.cms.gov/ICD-10.

*Hyperlinks are current at the time of distribution and may change without notice.