"The Direct Reimbursement of Clinical Social Workers Demonstration Project was developed in response to a congressional mandate to test whether recognizing clinical social workers (CSWs) as independent practitioners, rather than having them bill through a supervising physician as currently required under Medicare regulations, would improve access to needed mental health services for medicare beneficiaries and whether it would be a cost-effective method of delivering care. The demonstration project, sponsored by the Health Care Financing Administration, ran from January 1, 1984, through December 31, 1985 ..."--Page i.

"October 1987."

Photocopy. [Baltimore, Maryland?] : Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, [2002]. 28 cm.

CMS copy in folder: Assessment of the clinical social worker demonstration / Report to Congress / October 30, 1987.