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Tim Haas
Senior Product Manager, Medical Guardian
Vanita Pindolia, PharmD, MBA
Vice President, Stars and Senior Health Services, BCBSM
Richard Pitts, D.O, Ph.D
Chief Medical Officer, Cal Optima Health
Michael Kobernick, MD, MS, MS-PopH, CPE
Senior Medical Director, Health Plan Business, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Telehealth accounted for more than one-quarter of all outpatient mental health care among U.S. adults in 2021 to 2022, according to a Nov. 26 JAMA Psychiatry study. Researchers examined national trends by care modality, revealing notable differences by age, income,…
A coalition of 19 state attorneys general and two state governors filed a lawsuit Nov. 13, seeking to block changes to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s $3.9 billion Continuum of Care grant program, according to a Nov.…
The World Health Organization released a comprehensive report detailing its latest strategies to improve behavioral health worldwide. The document identifies urgent, system-level gaps, underscores the need for sustained investment in mental health services and calls on governments to embed behavioral…
Idaho plans to reduce pay rates for Medicaid mental health services by up to 15% beginning Dec. 2, a move providers say will destabilize care and increase pressure on jails and hospitals, according to a Nov. 25 report from KIFI…
Behavioral health faces a range of challenges — and top among them is access. Patients can linger on appointment waitlists for months or be caught in a referral backlog. During the limbo, patient conditions can worsen, driving them to seek…
Regence Blue Shield was fined $550,000 by Washington state regulators for failing to show its behavioral health coverage complies with mental health parity laws. The Office of the Insurance Commissioner said Regence did not submit required documentation demonstrating that behavioral…