by Jordana Choucair | Sep 20, 2022 | Mental Health
Senators committed to addressing mental health care parity are encountering resistance from insurer and employer groups. The Labor Department found this year that “health insurance issuers are failing to deliver parity for mental health and substance-use...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 20, 2022 | Mental Health
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the HHS Roadmap for Behavioral Health Integration (Roadmap), detailing policy solutions that would integrate behavioral health care into the larger health care system. The Roadmap aims to ensure that all...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 20, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy released a new brief exploring challenges and opportunities for integrating Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment into Community Health Centers (CHCs). Drawing on the experiences of CHC leadership and national experts –...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 20, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
Pew Charitable Trust released a new issue briefing discussing how federal and state regulations are hindering access to opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment. Pew found that nearly all states have rules governing OUD treatments that are not based in evidence and, in...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 20, 2022 | Payers
Centene Corp. agreed to pay $165.6 million to Texas to resolve claims that it overcharged the state’s Medicaid program for pharmacy services. The health insurer and state reached the settlement on July 11. The agreement is Centene’s largest known payout over its drug...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 20, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
New Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data found that more than 80 percent of pregnancy-related deaths that occurred between 2017 and 2019 were preventable. Twenty-two percent of pregnancy-related deaths took place during pregnancy, 25 percent occurred...
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