This article will present ethical considerations of the ACA for psychiatrists. For the most part, ethical dilemmas for psychiatrists will occur in the quality and efficiency improvement category. Particular areas of concern are new innovations to improve quality and bring down costs, integrated health systems, linking payments to quality outcomes, payment bundling, and paying physicians based on value rather than volume.

Ethical expert Dr Paul Appelbaum tells us how the Physician Payment Sunshine Act will affect psychiatrist.

The largest and fastest-growing subset of Social Security Disability (SSDI) beneficiaries is patients with psychiatric diagnoses, even as the federal SSDI Trust Fund diminishes. In 2005, the Social Security Administration authorized the Mental Health Treatment Study (MHTS) to test the hypothesis that a comprehensive, team-based, supported employment program would increase the likelihood that beneficiaries would find work.

Most medical journals (as well as TCPR) require authors to disclose their affiliations with pharmaceutical companies or other for-profit entities, to help readers assess for any evidence of bias.

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Despite the increased attention drawn to TBI, I often hear statements from mental health providers like, “I don’t see anybody in my clinic who has a history of TBI,” or, “People with more severe injuries don’t seek mental health services.”

Beginning in January 2014, the method for obtaining ABPN self-assessment (SA) CME (MOC) from The Carlat Psychiatry Report will change.

Long-time editorial board member Ivan Goldberg passed away on November 26, 2013. Dr. Goldberg was a psychopharmacologist in New York and the founder of the Depression Central website and one of the largest psychopharmocology listservs in the world. Dr. Goldberg joined the TCPR editorial board in 2006. He will be missed.

An Index to articles and topics covered in Volume 11, 2013 TCPR

Former active duty military and current civilian psychologist Dr Bret Moore provides tips and advice for compassionately and effectively treating returning veterans.