NASW-NYS is proactively seeking opportunities to increase social work salaries on a number of fronts. Currently, we are working with NASW-National to advocate for a bill that seeks to raise the Medicare reimbursement rates for social workers. In addition, we are assembling a managed care task force to examine and respond to reimbursement issues identified by members, working in conjunction with other licensed mental health provider groups to identify and respond to issues related to the state’s mental health parity law and network adequacy, and advocating for restitution for services rendered by social workers to past enrollees of Health Republic; the largest co-op insurer who recently (and quite abruptly) closed in November.