Here are eight data points from research released by the National Association of Counties' commission on mental health and well-being May 11:
Government & Regulation
Texas Children's Hospital in Houston has been cited by the Labor Department's Occupational Health and Safety Administration for failing to protect employees from physical assaults by aggressive patients.
HHS has published a fact sheet on changes to telehealth policies following the expiration of the national public health emergency May 11.
Montana state legislators passed a flurry of major healthcare reform bills in the session that ended on May 2, including several behavioral health investments.
Recent years have seen a flurry of legislation aimed at blocking transgender people from receiving gender-affirming care.
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Recent years have seen a flurry of legislation aimed at blocking transgender people from receiving gender-affirming care.
The Drug Enforcement Agency and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration extended the allowances for physicians to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine without an in-person evaluation until November.
Boston-based Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, a state-run hospital, is investigating inpatient deaths in response to allegations of neglect and suboptimal care for patients with mental health disabilities.
More than half of the $1 billion in Medicare psychotherapy provided from March 2020 to February 2021 "did not comply with Medicare requirements," according to an HHS inspector general's report released May 4.
New legislation in Illinois would offer people with most commercial insurance to have one free mental health diagnosis each year, WAND reported May 4.