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American Psychiatric Association Assembly Meeting

February 29-March 1, 2020
Atlanta, Georgia

John P. D. Shemo, MD, DLFAPA
PSV Assembly Representative

The American Psychiatric Association Area 5 Meeting was held in Atlanta on February 29/March 1, 2020. As is common, several of the Assembly Executive Committee members who are from other areas joined us. This gives us the opportunity to hear not only what is happening across Area 5, but around the country. 

For new PSV or APA members, when the APA Assembly was founded, there were few psychiatrists in the South. With the demographic shift that has occurred since then, Area 5 has become not only geographically the largest area of the seven APA areas, but also the one with the “largest vote” in the Assembly. If Area 5 and any one of the other six areas voted in unison, they could pass any action before the Assembly.

While issues related to the coronavirus were actively discussed, the situation was not as grave at that point or, frankly, the meeting would not have occurred “in person.”  The upcoming Assembly meeting that was to be held prior to the now canceled APA Scientific Meeting in Philadelphia, will be held as a virtual meeting but in a much truncated form. 

I am distressed to report that Virginia remains, with a couple of contenders, the state in which the insurance entities remain most out of compliance with the mental health parity law. Hopefully, the recent judicial ruling in Massachusetts regarding insurance entity noncompliance with parity regulations will have a “ripple effect” as far south as Virginia.

More recent APA issues since the Area 5 meeting include:

As I always restate at the end of my reports, Dr. Kaul, Dr. Choudhary, and I serve on the Assembly to represent the membership of the PSV, and, by extension, the psychiatrists in Virginia who are not members of the PSV but should be.  We are always open to hearing your concerns about factors that impact your care of your patients and will try to engage the APA in finding solutions.

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