Illinois has no record keeping law; the state psychological association directs psychologists to APA's Record Keeping Guidelines. The psychology licensing board or a state or local psychological association to which you belong can provide information about requirements in your state.
In the absence of state law guidance, APA's Record Keeping Guidelines indicate that psychologists may consider maintaining full records for seven years after the last date of service or for three years after a minor patient reaches majority, whichever comes later. While Medicare has record retention requirements for facilities such as hospitals and hospice, the federal program does not impose such requirements on Medicare providers in private practice.
Private health insurers and other third-party payers may designate record retention periods that apply to the files of patients that they cover. To learn about applicable policies, check your provider manual or contact the company's provider relations representative if you are affiliated with any private insurers.
A psychologist who may consider keeping records longer than the period required by state law should weigh competing considerations. The longer you retain records, the greater risk you may face that confidential information could be revealed.
In addition, retaining records over long periods may be challenging or expensive - for example, storing extensive paper records for numerous clients. On the other hand, as stated in the APA Record Keeping Guidelines, an earlier record of symptoms of a mental disorder might be useful in later diagnosis and treatment.
In addition, old records may provide a defense to psychologists who are sued or face a licensing board complaint. System requirements: This webinar will be hosted through Zoom. Upon registration, participants will be provided a link that they can use to access live from any desktop, laptop, tablet, or smart device.
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In order to create an account, you must first order a course from our broad selection. He also provided telephone consultation services to AAMFT members regarding legal and ethical issues confronting practitioners of diverse licensure nationwide. Additionally, he wrote articles regarding legal and ethical issues for their Family Therapy Magazine and presented at workshops on a variety of legal issues. He represented CAMFT before the regulatory board the Board of Behavioral Sciences and was a tireless advocate for due process and fairness for licensees and applicants.
Richard is an acknowledged expert on matters pertaining to the interrelationship between law and the practice of marriage and family therapy and psychotherapy. For many years, he taught Law and Ethics courses for a number of colleges and universities in their marriage and family therapy degree programs.
While at CAMFT, he provided telephone consultation services with thousands of therapists in California and elsewhere for over twenty years.
He is highly regarded for his judgment, his expertise, his direct style, and his clarity. Richard has been the driving force for many of the changes and additions to the laws of the State of California that affect MFTs.
In , he was primarily responsible for achieving passage of the "Freedom of Choice Law" that required insurance companies to pay for psychotherapy services performed by MFTs. Passage of that law allowed MFTs to earn a living, allowed them to better compete in the marketplace, and strengthened the profession in California by leading to a great increase in the number of licensees and CAMFT membership. Currently, about half of the licensed marriage and family therapists in the country are licensed in California.
While at CAMFT, Richard was primarily responsible for, among other things, the successful effort to criminalize sex between a patient and a therapist. He was successful in extending the laws of psychotherapist-patient privilege to MFTs, thereby giving patients the same level of privacy protection as when seeing a psychiatrist or psychologist.
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