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APA Joins Choosing Wisely Campaign

APA Releases List of Common Uses of Psychiatric Medications to Question

New Member Benefit for Your Practice

Free access to SureScripts-certified eRx and patient resources. Members may access this new benefit by going to the APA website and logging in with their APA user name and password

CPT Coding Changes for 2013

New online course: CPT Coding and Documentation Update: 2013 CPT Coding Changes. Familiarize yourself with the new codes and how to document for them as well as refresh your knowledge of existing codes. Detailed CPT coding resources are also available on the APA's CPT Changes 2013 webpage.

Clinical Resources

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Professional Interests

  • HIV Psychiatry

    Educational and clinical resources for
    providers     treating patients with
    HIV or AIDS.

  • Geriatric Psychiatry

    Educational and clinical resources for
    providers treating older adults.

  • Psychosomatic Medicine

    Educational and clinical resources for
    providers treating patients with
    co-morbid medical illness.

  • Addiction Psychiatry

    Educational and clinical resources on assessing and treating substance use disorders

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

    Resources supporting this subspecialty focusing on children and youth.

  • Disaster Psychiatry

    Disaster Psychiatry has an important role in emergency prevention, response and recovery.

  • Diversity

    Educational and clinical resources for psychiatrists working with diverse ethnic and racial populations.

  • Integrated Care

     Physician ressources for integrated care.  APA members may join the Integrated Care Listserv by sending their name and email address to integratedcare@psych.org.

  • Public Psychiatry

    Services provided by public sector clinicians serve as a safety net for disadvantaged, vulnerable, mentally ill, and addicted individuals in the community. Resources for providers working in the public sector.

  • Recovery oriented care

    Educational and clinical resources to support and facilitate recovery-oriented, person-centered psychiatric practice.

  • International Psychiatrists

     

  • Underserved Communities

    Physician resources for underserved communities
 

  • Practice HelpLine

    Troubleshooting your practice

    Need help getting claims paid, understanding managed care UM requirements, looking for coding guidance, unsure whether parity comes into play?

  • Closing a Practice

    Retiring or Closing a Practice?

    Resources for Members and their families who are closing a practice on short notice or a planned closing.

  • Practice Management for Psychiatrists: The Basics

    Practice Management for Psychiatrists: The Basics

    Designed to meet the needs of Residents and Early Career Psychiatrists (ECPs), the practice information it contains is of value whether you' are just starting out or have been practicing for some time.

  • APA malpractice insurance

    APA-Endorsed Malpractice Insurance

    A medical malpractice program designed to meet the needs of mental health professionals, specifically psychiatrists.

Ethics

All members of the Association shall be bound by the ethical code of the medical profession, specifically defined in the Principles of Medical Ethics of the American Medical Association and in the American Psychiatric Association’s Principles of Medical Ethics With Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry.

The APA’s Ethics Committee is responsible for drafting (for Board of Trustee and Assembly approval) annotations to update the current Principles of Medical Ethics With Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry, responding to members’ inquiries about ethical issues, and providing educational activities for the membership and the chairpersons of district branch ethics committees. The Ethics Committee also ensures complaints are handled in accordance with the APA’s Procedures for Handling Complaints of Unethical Conduct.

To view the current APA ethics documents, click here.
 

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