Andrew Marks, LMSW, is the former Executive Director of the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners and the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists. Andrew has served as lecturer at the School of Social Work at Texas State University in San Marcos since 2003, and has worked for the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and for the Texas chapter of NASW. A lively and entertaining speaker, Andrew was featured at the TSCSW Spring Ethics Workshop in 2005 and is back by popular demand to lead the presentation on the ethical decision-making process in clinical practice.

Mark J. Hanna, JD, member of the Travis County and Texas Bar Association, has been practicing law since 1973 and is widely regarded as a health law expert. He serves as Legal Counsel for many local, statewide, and national trade and professional associations and has been involved in significant legislative initiatives on their behalf. As Legal and Legislative Counsel for TSCSW Mark is available to answer questions and provide information on legal, regulatory, and legislative issues that affect clinical social workers in their day to day practice.

Kathy T. Rider, LCSW BCD, is a past president of TSCSW, and current Chair of the Governmental Affairs Committee, Kathy has been practicing clinical social work for over thirty years, and has been actively involved in the legislative issues affecting clinical social workers and their clients.
 

Major Peter E. Bauer USAR MS, clinical social worker and member of the Texas Society for Clinical Social Work, has been recalled to service in support of the military operations ongoing in Iraq. Peter is a nationally known expert on PTSD in the military. In April of this year Peter did a presentation on PTSD at the 2006 Tri-Service Combat Stress Conference at Camp Pendleton, California, and he will be presenting again this year at the 2006 Uniformed Services Social Worker Conference in Arlington, Virginia on August 2, 2006. Currently Peter is working in the substance abuse program in the Dwight Eisenhower Medical Center at Fort Gordon, Georgia doing clinical assessments and treatment with patients, and training on relapse prevention for patients and staff. TSCSW is proud of Peter and of the contribution he is making to the understanding and treatment of PTSD and substance abuse in the military.


 

National Provider Identifier
The National Provider Identifier, or NPI, is the new provider number mandated by HIPPA to go into effect by 2007. Clinical social workers, as mental health providers, are required to obtain an NPI. Most health plans will be required to accept and use the NPI in standard transactions by May 23, 2007. It is easy to apply. On the web go to: nppes.cms.hhs.gov to apply online; or call 800 465-3203. You will be issued a ten digit NPI number that, when it goes into effect, will make dealing with insurance companies a little easier.

Clinical Social Work Federation
The Clinical Social Work Federation, the national organization of state clinical societies of which TSCSW has been a member, has been dissolved and replaced by a new clinical social work association. Members of the Texas Society for Clinical Social Work will continue to have access to the clinical journal and all the other membership benefits they are accustomed to receiving. Members who have their malpractice insurance with CPH & Associates will have no disruption of coverage because of the dissolution of the clinical federation. It is not necessary, nor has it ever been necessary, to be a member of the CSWF or the new clinical social work association to purchase malpractice insurance from CPH & Associates.

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