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CMS Innovation Center’s Strategic Pivot: Navigating the Shift to “Make America Healthy Again”
On May 13, 2025, CMMI announced their new strategy under the “Make America Healthy Again” initiative, indicating a pivot from the previous administration’s system-level transformation approach to individual empowerment and prevention.
Event Recap: Unveiling the Mental Health Parity Index
The Kennedy Forum, Third Horizon, and the AMA unveiled the Mental Health Parity Index, a first-of-its-kind data tool designed to measure how commercial health plans meet mental health and substance use parity requirements.
The Chronic Disease Paradox: When Policy Undermines Public Health Goals
This month’s focus: The impact of policy turbulence on longstanding public health efforts.
Weathering the Policy Storm: Building Provider Strength when Funding is Uncertain
The behavioral health funding landscape is shifting and funding providers have relied on is becoming increasingly inconsistent and unpredictable. This piece provides practical strategies that can help organizations build resilience.
2024 Watch: Funding for Community Behavioral Health
The behavioral health funding landscape is ever-changing as America grapples with increasing demands for mental health and substance use disorder services. This piece addresses funding streams to meet the behavioral health needs of communities.
Digital Divides – An Update on DEA Rules for Remote Prescribing of Controlled Substances
Background Earlier this year, Third Horizon Strategies (THS) published an overview of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) proposed rules regarding the remote prescribing of controlled substances via telehealth. These proposed rules were in response to the conclusion of...