CMS will introduce a new model designed to integrate behavioral and physical healthcare with health-related social needs in Medicare and Medicaid.
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North Carolina will implement a new statewide Medicaid plan in 2024 designed to integrate behavioral and physical health services for children.
Two representatives have partnered on a bipartisan bill that would allow inpatient psychiatric hospitals to apply for mortgage assistance.
CMS approved New York state's request for a sweeping Medicaid waiver Jan. 9, which will put $7.5 billion over three years to the state's healthcare system.
Lawmakers are considering allowing Medicaid to pay for addiction treatment in larger inpatient facilities, Politico reported Jan. 1.
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Medicare Advantage plans will be required to comply with new behavioral health network adequacy and wait time standards in 2024.
More behavioral health providers will be eligible for Medicare payments in 2024, and many states will increase Medicaid reimbursements for behavioral providers.
Ten people were charged in an alleged scheme to transport patients from unlicensed sober living and transitional homes to a fake behavioral health facility in exchange for payments.
Medicare payment policies taking effect in 2024 will make around 250,000 more behavioral health providers available to older adults, according to an analysis from the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Eighty-six percent of Americans want their elected officials in Congress to take more steps to address the country's mental health crisis, according to a recent survey from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.