Clinical Social Work: State Laws Governing Independent Practice and Reimbursement of Services

摘要

The report contains information on state laws and regulations governing independently practicing clinical social workers (those not employed by physicians, clinics, or hospitals). The fact sheet provides the results of our efforts to determine, for each state: whether the state had established any control of social workers through licensing, registration, or certification practices; whether the state recognized for insurance reimbursement purposes persons in the independent practice of clinical social work as alternative providers of mental health services; whether the state recognized indepently practicing persons providing clinical social work as alternative providers of mental health services for Medicaid reimbursement purposes.