by Jordana Choucair | Oct 3, 2022 | Mental Health
Several states are considering making changes to school absentee rules to support students’ mental health needs. A dozen states – including Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Virginia, Maine, and Connecticut – already...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 30, 2022 | Mental Health
The House passed the Mental Health Matters Act by a largely party-line 220-205 vote. The bill would impose new fines on insurers that don’t follow federal mental health pay parity requirements. The legislation would also direct the Department of Education to...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 30, 2022 | Mental Health
Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that U.S. suicide rate rose in 2021 after two consecutive years of declines. In 2021, 47,646 people in the U.S. died by suicide, up from 45,979 in 2020. The four-percent increase...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 27, 2022 | Mental Health
A Bloomberg article explores how the mental health crisis has led hospitals to create a new kind of emergency unit. Developed at the University of California in Riverside, the Empath (emergency psychiatric assessment, treatment, and healing) centers improve care by...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 22, 2022 | Mental Health
The Senate Finance committee released new draft legislation to address the mental health workforce shortage. The legislation seeks to add 400 new Medicare graduate medical education psychiatry slots a year for the next 10 years, offering a total of 4,000 additional...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 21, 2022 | Mental Health
The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) reported that spending on addiction and mental health rose from 6.8 percent of total health care costs in 2013 to 8.2 percent in 2020. Employers and workers spent about $77 billion on mental health and substance use...
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