With control of the Senate still hanging in the balance, it’s difficult to know how the health care policy landscape will look in 2021 and beyond. It all comes down to the Georgia Senate runoff races in January. If Republicans win at least one of the two seats up for grabs, they will retain the […]
The Senate has passed legislation that would provide more resources to community mental health and addiction treatment centers that serve people who are incarcerated. The Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Act now heads to the House of Representatives for consideration. The bipartisan bill is designed to improve care for incarcerated people with behavioral health conditions. […]
It seems America has spoken: Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States. While it’s still too early to know exactly what Biden’s policy platform will look like, experts anticipate the new administration will usher in a number of positive changes for the behavioral health industry. “Biden and his history indicate that […]
COVID-19 has dominated the labor and employment law landscape over the past seven months, as state and federal governments continue to make regulatory changes left and right. One of the latest modifications should be of particular interest to behavioral health providers, as it tweaks the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) to narrow the definition […]
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is more than a year behind on creating a special registration process that would allow behavioral health providers to tele-prescribe certain medications for substance use disorder (SUD) treatment. Now, dozens of organizations are putting pressure on federal officials to change that, asking them to move forward and make medication-assisted treatment […]
As the U.S. heads into one of the most divisive elections in its history, a number important issues are on the table. Chiefly among them is health care, with the outcome of the election likely to have serious implications for the behavioral health industry in particular. Currently, Joe Biden is favored to come out on […]
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is suing CleanSlate Centers for allegedly defrauding the state Medicaid program out of millions of dollars. Meanwhile, the national addiction treatment center chain says the allegations are meritless. The lawsuit asserts that CleanSlate submitted millions of dollars worth of false claims for unnecessary urine drug tests to MassHealth. On top of […]
It’s official: The nation suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline number will be shortened to three digits. The news comes after President Donald Trump signed the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act into law on Oct. 17. The legislation simplifies the emergency hotline number from ten digits to three: 988. The goal is to make […]
Behavioral health providers have been navigating uncharted territory for seven months and counting. Given the upcoming election and the persistence of the COVID-19 emergency, that uncertainty is likely to continue in the months to come. While there’s no way for providers to know exactly what the future holds, there are a few actions they can […]
People with severe mental illnesses (SMIs) often end up homeless, hospitalized or incarcerated. To change that, federal and commercial payers need to reimagine the way they reimburse for the treatment of SMIs, behavioral health stakeholders say. “Our mental health care payment system is really not geared toward people with serious mental illness,” psychiatrist and documentarian […]
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