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Chester M. Pierce Human Rights Award
The Chester M. Pierce Human Rights Award recognizes extraordinary efforts by individuals and organizations focused on promoting and supporting the human rights of populations with mental health needs, while maintaining the ethical standards of the APA.
Scholars Program
The APA Scholar Program gives residents, medical students, and graduates students the chance to network with peers and meet and collaborate with top educators, practitioners, and researchers in psychiatry.
APA Board of Trustees Structural Racism Accountability Committee
The APA BOT Structural Racism Accountability Committee (SRAC) was formed in 2021 to ensure the recommendations of the 2020-2021 APA Presidential Task Force to Address Structural Racism Throughout Psychiatry (TFSR) are carried out.
Medicare Fee Schedule
APA's Office of Healthcare Systems & Financing coordinates the activities relating to the AMA CPT Editorial Panel, where CPT codes are developed, and to the AMA RUC, which makes recommendations to the CMS on the values for the procedures defined by CPT codes.
Opting Out of Medicare
Information and resources for APA members on opting out of medicare enrollment.
CPT Coding and Reimbursement
The Current Procedure Terminology (CPT) code set is used to denote the medical and surgical procedures and diagnostic services rendered by clinicians. The CPT coding system provides a uniform language for describing these services for all billing and documentation and, under HIPAA, is required to be used to record care by all health care professionals in the United States.
AMA National Study to Document Changes in Physician Practice Expense
Mathematica launched the Physician Practice Information (PPI) and Physician Hours Survey on Monday, July 31 and those practices selected for the survey will be completing these surveys until early 2024.
Mental Health Parity
Learn about APA@s advocacy efforts to promote proper implementation and enforcement of mental health parity.
Patient Safety and Emergency Management
Learn about patient safety and emergency management for telepsychiatry in APA@s Telepsychiatry Toolkit.
2024 Meeting Theme
Learn more about the 2024 Annual Meeting's theme: Confronting Addiction from Prevention to Recovery.