{"id":12794,"date":"2020-04-11T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/?p=12794"},"modified":"2020-10-16T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T18:37:15","slug":"daily-audio-update-dr-karen-cohen-on-advocacy-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/daily-audio-update-dr-karen-cohen-on-advocacy-during-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio Update: Dr. Karen Cohen on advocacy during COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Audio Update: Dr. Karen Cohen on advocacy during COVID-19<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/790153618&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nQuick chat with CPA CEO Dr. Karen Cohen about advocacy during COVID-19. Calling for insurers to cover tele-psychology, and drop the requirements for a physician referral for psychological services.<\/p>\n<div id=\"accordions-12776\" class=\"accordions-12776 accordions\" data-accordions={&quot;lazyLoad&quot;:true,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;12776&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;collapsible&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;heightStyle&quot;:&quot;content&quot;,&quot;animateStyle&quot;:&quot;swing&quot;,&quot;animateDelay&quot;:1000,&quot;navigation&quot;:true,&quot;active&quot;:999,&quot;expandedOther&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}>\r\n                <div id=\"accordions-lazy-12776\" class=\"accordions-lazy\" accordionsId=\"12776\">\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"items\"  style=\"display:none\" >\r\n    \r\n            <div post_id=\"12776\" itemcount=\"0\"  header_id=\"header-1580324481504\" id=\"header-1580324481504\" style=\"\" class=\"accordions-head head1580324481504 border-none\" toggle-text=\"\" main-text=\"Dr. Karen Cohen on advocacy during COVID-19\">\r\n                                    <span id=\"accordion-icons-1580324481504\" class=\"accordion-icons\">\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-active accordion-plus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-inactive accordion-minus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                    <\/span>\r\n                    <span id=\"header-text-1580324481504\" class=\"accordions-head-title\">Dr. Karen Cohen on advocacy during COVID-19<\/span>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n            <div class=\"accordion-content content1580324481504 \">\r\n                <h2>Dr. Karen Cohen on telehealth advocacy<\/h2>\n<p><strong>What is on the docket for the CPA in terms of advocacy for psychologists doing tele-psychology?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Advocacy for access to funded psychological services has been on the docket for us for some time. I think there are some exciting things happening now. The Canadian Alliance for Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH), for example, is putting together a policy position calling for parity \u2013 so, requiring our governments and funders to provide coverage equivalently for mental and physical disorders.<\/p>\n<p>HEAL, which is organizations for Health Action, all the national health care organizations, also has access to mental health services as one of it\u2019s advocacy priorities. And the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) has put together a network on which CPA sits, looking at access to psychotherapies for Canadians. So that work will continue.<\/p>\n<p>In the current situation, we\u2019ve been in touch with the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association (CLHIA) and we\u2019ve been calling on them to reach out to all their members, who are all the individual insurers, to cover services delivered virtually by psychologists. Every plan differs and that\u2019s one of the challenges when it comes to doing advocacy when it comes to access, particularly in the private sector. There\u2019s not one funder and there\u2019s not one plan and there\u2019s not one plan sponsor. They all have oversight individually over what those plans look like, so you can imagine how many conversations have to be had to make the change we\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n<p>This is why it\u2019s helpful to have an organization like CLHIA, because they have a conduit to their insurance members. The other thing we\u2019ve been asking them is that some policies have a requirement for a physician referral. So to access a psychologist, the plan will cover it IF you\u2019re referred by a physician. We\u2019ve been calling on them for some time to waive this requirement, and especially now.<\/p>\n<p>Our health providers \u2013 family doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners \u2013 are working hard to address the needs of patients and particularly the needs of patients who might have concerns about COVID. Having them make a referral to a psychologist who is someone you could otherwise see without the referral, doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense. So we\u2019re working hard to try to advocate for that as well.<\/p>\n            <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n            <\/div>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Audio Update: Dr. Karen Cohen on advocacy during COVID-19<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/790153618&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>Quick chat with CPA CEO Dr. Karen Cohen about advocacy during COVID-19. Calling for insurers to cover tele-psychology, and drop the requirements for a physician referral for psychological services.<\/p>\n<div id=\"accordions-12776\" class=\"accordions-12776 accordions\" data-accordions={&quot;lazyLoad&quot;:true,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;12776&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;collapsible&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;heightStyle&quot;:&quot;content&quot;,&quot;animateStyle&quot;:&quot;swing&quot;,&quot;animateDelay&quot;:1000,&quot;navigation&quot;:true,&quot;active&quot;:999,&quot;expandedOther&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}>\r\n                <div id=\"accordions-lazy-12776\" class=\"accordions-lazy\" accordionsId=\"12776\">\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"items\"  style=\"display:none\" >\r\n    \r\n            <div post_id=\"12776\" itemcount=\"0\"  header_id=\"header-1580324481504\" id=\"header-1580324481504\" style=\"\" class=\"accordions-head head1580324481504 border-none\" toggle-text=\"\" main-text=\"Dr. Karen Cohen on advocacy during COVID-19\">\r\n                                    <span id=\"accordion-icons-1580324481504\" class=\"accordion-icons\">\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-active accordion-plus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-inactive accordion-minus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                    <\/span>\r\n                    <span id=\"header-text-1580324481504\" class=\"accordions-head-title\">Dr. Karen Cohen on advocacy during COVID-19<\/span>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n            <div class=\"accordion-content content1580324481504 \">\r\n                <h2>Dr. Karen Cohen on telehealth advocacy<\/h2>\n<p><strong>What is on the docket for the CPA in terms of advocacy for psychologists doing tele-psychology?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Advocacy for access to funded psychological services has been on the docket for us for some time. I think there are some exciting things happening now. The Canadian Alliance for Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH), for example, is putting together a policy position calling for parity \u2013 so, requiring our governments and funders to provide coverage equivalently for mental and physical disorders.<\/p>\n<p>HEAL, which is organizations for Health Action, all the national health care organizations, also has access to mental health services as one of it\u2019s advocacy priorities. And the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) has put together a network on which CPA sits, looking at access to psychotherapies for Canadians. So that work will continue.<\/p>\n<p>In the current situation, we\u2019ve been in touch with the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association (CLHIA) and we\u2019ve been calling on them to reach out to all their members, who are all the individual insurers, to cover services delivered virtually by psychologists. Every plan differs and that\u2019s one of the challenges when it comes to doing advocacy when it comes to access, particularly in the private sector. There\u2019s not one funder and there\u2019s not one plan and there\u2019s not one plan sponsor. They all have oversight individually over what those plans look like, so you can imagine how many conversations have to be had to make the change we\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n<p>This is why it\u2019s helpful to have an organization like CLHIA, because they have a conduit to their insurance members. The other thing we\u2019ve been asking them is that some policies have a requirement for a physician referral. So to access a psychologist, the plan will cover it IF you\u2019re referred by a physician. We\u2019ve been calling on them for some time to waive this requirement, and especially now.<\/p>\n<p>Our health providers \u2013 family doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners \u2013 are working hard to address the needs of patients and particularly the needs of patients who might have concerns about COVID. Having them make a referral to a psychologist who is someone you could otherwise see without the referral, doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense. So we\u2019re working hard to try to advocate for that as well.<\/p>\n            <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n            <\/div>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archivedailyaudiofr"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-26 20:14:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12794"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16656,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12794\/revisions\/16656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}