APA makes the once impossible possible Volume 32, No. After years of fighting an uphill battle, APA convinces the federal government to fund psychology internship training under Medicare. APA waged a hard-fought battle for inclusion of psychologists in GME for years.
Psychology remains optimistic, however.
There is no binding timetable for producing a final rule. Public comment on the rule will be accepted until mid-March. HHS will then have an open-ended time period to make the rule final. In the past, the public wasn't investing in us, so we didn't appear to be as important as other disciplines. In so many cases, we were looking at decreases, not increases, in training money.