Press Release
Counselors are among professionals on an essential services list to ensure communities continue to function during disasters, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, that affect health and safety as well as economic and national security.
Your ACA Government Affairs and Public Policy team is hard at work for you and for your clients.
ACA requested states to lift restrictions on telebehavioral health and ensure payment parity until the conclusion of the national COVID-19 emergency.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) was signed into law, authorizing Rural and Federally Qualified Health Clinics to provide telebehavioral health services to Medicare beneficiaries during the COVID-19 health emergency.