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Medicare 2026: 4 PFS Rules Reshaping PMHNP Billing — Plus the Gap CMS Left Open
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Deep Dive with Lindsay Hill, DNP, PMHNP - Psych NP Mentor - ... by Lindsay Hill
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CMS dropped 1,800+ pages of CY 2026 Physician Fee Schedule rules — and four of them quietly rewrote how PMHNPs supervise, bill, and prescribe starting January 1, 2026. Most early-career PMHNPs are still working off 2025 assumptions that no longer apply.
Two AI hosts walk through the four headline changes from CMS-1832-F and where they actually move the paycheck:
• Permanent virtual direct supervision (incident-to no longer requires a shared office suite — and the narrow global-surgery carve-out you can't ignore).
• New BHI/CoCM add-on G-codes (G0568, G0569, G0570) stacking on top of the Advanced Primary Care Management base codes — what's billable, what isn't.
• Digital mental health treatment now covering ADHD devices under 21 CFR § 882.5803, plus how G0552, G0553, and G0554 fit into a real treatment plan.
• Subsequent inpatient, subsequent nursi ...
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