Newsletters
WOMHA sends out quarterly newsletters to empower Oregon behavioral health professionals through education. Each release will feature information from the experts in our legislative advocacy committee OIMHP to help you understand trends in insurance company behaviors and your rights under federal and state laws. We will also keep you informed of OIMHP's advocacy activities which seek to give mental health professionals a voice in the state-level decisions that affect our practices and our livelihoods. To make sure you stay informed, become a Subscriber by submitting your email below.
WOMHA Members and OIMHP Partners automatically receive newsletters, plus additional insider information. Your WOMHA membership and OIMHP partnership support this important work and we want you to be proud of all we have accomplished together.
Winter 2025
Learn about the Coding Advisor Program letters monitoring utilization of CPT code 90837 and what to do if you receive one (or several). Register to attend our April 11th continuing education event on Suicide Assessment and Treatment. We also introduce you to HB 3725, OIMHP's Mental Health Parity Transparency and Fairness Bill which reduces power imbalances between behavioral health providers and insurance companies, and creates a pipeline for providers to report insurer actions that violate mental health parity laws. Lastly, we share OIMHP's 2025 legislative agenda.
Fall 2024
Learn about why major insurance companies are raising reimbursement rates in Oregon when they remain low, stagnant, and even decreasing in many other states. We will give you a peak into OIMHP's 2025 legislative agenda and inform you of rule changes at the federal level. We invite you to attend our continuing education event on October 11th featuring a former American Counseling Association (ACA) Ethics Specialist and conclude with announcements for our members.