| Our Mission |
We are a professional
association committed to continuously improving the ability of our more
than 1,000 psychiatrist members to provide quality treatment for persons
with mental illnesses.
Florida Psychiatric Society is the professional organization for all of
Florida's psychiatrists from Key West to Pensacola. The
activities of the FPS are coordinated from our staff office in
Tallahassee, Florida. The Council directs the activities of the
Executive Director. Staff duties in support of those activities are then
assigned by the Executive Director. The FPS also contracts for the
services of our Government Relations Consultant, the registered lobbyist
for the society.
For additional information,
click on the Who We Are button at the left.
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Hear it Here!! |
It May Be
Time to Re-Enroll In Medicare (From APA News) |
FPS
Scientific Meetings
Always on the Horizon... |
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Florida Psychiatric Society
has prepared a number of brief conversation interviews with noted
experts ranging from 15 to30 minutes on various topics of interest to
psychiatrists. Hear The Experts Speak Podcasts by downloading these files in mp3 format.
Also FPS
has developed 30-60 second
Public Service Announcements on various mental health topics available
for listening or download.
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Blue
Cross/Blue Shield of Florida Issues Mental Health Parity Reminder
Click Here to Read |
In 2003 Medicare instituted
its Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System (PECOS) to securely
identify Medicare providers. Since then, it has been trying to get
providers who were enrolled in Medicare prior to the creation of PECOS
to re-enroll.
Physicians who receive requests for revalidation are given 60 days to
respond. If they fail to respond, their Medicare billing privileges are
revoked. At that point, if they wish to continue to see Medicare
patients, they must re-enroll anyway.
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Mark your calendar for April
13-15, 2012 to attend the Spring CME program of the Florida Psychiatric
Society at the Hilton Orlando.
Hilton Orlando |
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BCBS Enacts Parity-Defying Plan Changes
That Could Jeopardize Participants and Providers |
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From
Psychiatric News: A recent move by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida
(BCBSF) has resulted in the termination from provider panels of most
in-network mental health and substance use disorder clinicians, and it
may violate the federal mental health parity law, wrote APA and its
Parity Implementation Coalition partners in an August 25 letter to BCBSF
executives. …more |
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Florida Blue
Cross/Blue Shield Terminates Providers |
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In early August 2011 Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Florida sent letters to
all of its psychologist and psychiatrist providers in Florida advising
them that they would be terminated without cause but could reapply under
a new contract at significant rate cuts. The Parity Implementation
Coalition composed of some thirteen mental health consumer and provider
organizations has responded with letters to the CEOs of the BCBS
companies and to federal agencies interested in implementing mental
health parity. Members may read these letters on the
members only portion of the website.
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Florida Board
of Medicine Announces Major Bills that Affect Physicians |
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Please check the following two files
that you should have received from the Florida Board of Medicine prior
to 1 July 2011 when the new laws went into effect.
DOH Letter to
Physicians and
HB
7095 Controlled Substances. Both are pdf files.
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Florida Medicaid
Issues New Informed Consent Rule--and revises it
August 5 and further revises it August 22!!! |
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"Pursuant to statute
409.912(51)
The Agency
may not pay for a psychotropic medication prescribed for a child in the
Medicaid program without the express and informed consent of the child's
parent or legal guardian. The
physician shall document the consent in the child's medical record and
provide the pharmacy with a signed attestation of this documentation
with the prescription."
Click
here for full the most recent pdf notice. |
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Florida
Psychotherapeutic Medication Guidelines For Children and Adolescents and
for Adults |
Position
of the Florida Psychiatric Society Regarding Incarceration of Persons
with Severe Mental Illness |
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Please note the following resources available to psychiatrists and other
physicians prescribing psychotherapeutic medications to children and
adolescents and for adults. Florida Psychiatric Society members have
participated in development of the guidelines and the medical advisory
committee which has commented on implementation of the Medicaid Drug
Therapy Management Program for Behavioral Health, a program designed to
review data on prescribing patterns of psychiatrists, pediatricians and
other physicians treating patients with medications primarily in the
categories of antidepressants, antipsychotics and ADHD medications.
Click Here.
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In the past judges throughout Florida have brought public attention to
the problem of people in Florida with severe mental illnesses who sit in
our state jails. In fact, one Pinellas County Judge threatened to hold
the Secretary of Florida's Department of Children and Families (DCF) in
contempt if the agency did not provide a more appropriate setting for
this population.
The Florida Psychiatric Society appreciates that
judges throughout the state are alerting our citizens to the plight of
these inmates. Jail is not a place to treat persons with severe mental
illnesses. For
More Click Here. |
Florida Psychiatric Society
provides direct links to a number of carefully selected online stores
for the convenience of our members who make internet purchases.
Purchases made from Internet affiliate stores hyper linked directly from
this FPS Web Site earn FPS a commission while saving you money and time.
Always link to the internet store from this Web Site in order to direct
the commission to FPS.
Go to our Online Shopping
page to see all of the possibilities! When you visit Amazon be sure to
check out all the additional "stores" available within the Amazon store:
Nordstrom, Marshall Fields, Gap, Babies R Us, Target and many more! If
you can't find it within the FPS listings let the webmaster know and we
will try to find a way for you to order it through our site.
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| NAMI Florida
Opposes Recent Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Florida Action |
In a letter to BCBSFL
Vice President of Network Management Barry Schwartz, MD, NAMI
Florida asks that recent actions that are "discriminatory and verging on
unethical" be rescinded. To read the letter (pdf)
click here.
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FPS Clinical
Research Directory |
APA Dues
Payment Policy Change |
HIPAA
Info |
A goal of the
recently-developed FPS Clinical Research Committee has been to publish a
directory showing who is performing clinical trials and research, and
how to contact them. The directory will be updated monthly or as
needed. Click here
to access the Directory. Click the Acrobat icon below to download
Adobe Acrobat.
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Please
check here for
important news about a change in the way FPS/APA dues are collected.
Florida Psychiatric Society now bills dues through the American
Psychiatric Association. Go to
www.psych.org and sign in to the member's section to pay your annual
dues. |
Complete
HIPAA info is available online from the
HIPAA website for the Department
of Health and Human Services
as well as their regional helpline
number: 866-627-7748. |
FPS-INTOUCH
Listserv
Members who would like to
be included on the FPS Listserv can
email the office and request that they be added. |
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Members Write
Books |
Members Only
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CyberTransference |
You may order member/author
books online through Amazon.com directly from the FPS website. If you have written a book, submit
information to the Webmaster for consideration.
(Reviews)
News from
the APA
Check out this new
monthly information from the APA by clicking
here. |
Members may
go to the Members Only section for
a current list of FPS Committee Members. If you do not have the Members Only
password, please contact the FPS office.
Members may also read a Memo
from Government Counsel Jim Daughton on the Legislative Action page.
Legislative Action is available to members only.
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When a new copy of the
newsletter is available you can access it in PDF format by
clicking here. |
Obituaries
Look here for member
obituaries. Notify FPS office when you know of the death of an FPS
member.
(Click Here). |
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University
of Florida Grand Rounds Now Available via Webcast |
Press Release:
FPS and NAMI Join to Prevent Suicide |
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The University of Florida
College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry regularly sponsors Grand
Rounds lectures which can be watched on the web at your convenience (click
here). World-renowned experts are invited to address a wide spectrum
of specialties and subspecialties and often introduce new and
interesting developments. The objective of the program is to update
physicians and healthcare personnel on developing trends and techniques
in medicine.
Just log onto the Grand Rounds link, watch the webcast and answer the 5
questions that go along with the webcast and FPS members will receive
one CME! |
“More than 90 percent of Americans who die by suicide had
an undiagnosed and untreated mental illness—often depression,” said
Cynthia J. White, MD, president of the Florida Psychiatric Society.
Concerned about Florida’s higher-than-average suicide
rate, the Florida Psychiatric Society and NAMI (National Alliance on
Mental Illness) Florida have joined in publishing two guides to inform
physicians and Floridians about depression, the treatment options that
can help overcome it and taking medications as prescribed – not adding,
stopping or mixing medications without consulting the prescribing
doctor. Click below to read more. For more information
contact Bonnie Toole 850-222-8404. |
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The
Partnership for Prescription Assistance brings together America’s
pharmaceutical companies, doctors, other health care providers, patient
advocacy organizations and community groups to help qualifying patients
who lack prescription coverage get the medicines they need through the
public or private program that’s right for them. Many will get them free
or nearly free. Its mission is to increase awareness of patient
assistance programs and boost enrollment of those who are eligible.
Through this site, the Partnership for Prescription Assistance offers a
single point of access to more than 275 public and private patient
assistance programs, including more than 150 programs offered by
pharmaceutical companies. To access the Partnership for Prescription
Assistance by phone, you can call toll-free, 1-888-4PPA-NOW
(1-888-477-2669).
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Contact Information
Florida Psychiatric Society |
Margo S.
Adams,
Executive Director
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Telephone
(850) 222-8404 |
Bonnie Toole,
Associate Director |
FAX
(850) 224-8406 |
Jan
Starnes
Administrative Services |
Postal
address
521 East Park Avenue, Tallahassee, Florida 32301-2524 |
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Electronic
mail
General Information:
FPS@floridapsych.org
Meeting Information:
Meetings@floridapsych.org
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