It’s Time for Private Insurers to Join the 988 Conversation
A newly released paper tackles billing codes, giving recommendations for coding options for crisis lines, mobile crisis services, and crisis stabilization facilities.
Crisis Now Partners Share the Need for and Support of the Washington DC International Declaration
Crisis Now partners and leaders from around the world have released the Washington DC International Declaration, which calls for comprehensive and integrated networks as the first defense for mental health crises. The partners discuss the unrelenting inequity in access to care for people experiencing mental health emergencies compared to those
NASMHPD Breaks Down How the CARES Act $2 Trillion Stimulus Benefits Behavioral Healthcare
The CARES Act, designed to boost the U.S. economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic, includes $425 million for SAMHSA’s health surveillance and program support “to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally.”
SAMHSA Publishes National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care. Here’s Why It Matters.
Elinore F. McCance-Katz, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use at SAMHSA, says that the report “finally offers our communities true National Guidelines for Crisis Care within a user-friendly Best Practice Toolkit.”
Stateline Takes a Deep Dive Into the ‘Arizona Model’ for Crisis Care
Christine Vestal, a staff writer for Stateline, takes a deep dive comparing what people in behavioral health crises in Maricopa County, Arizona, experience compared to the rest of the United States. With Arizona pioneering a different way, what states are also noticing is that fostering a robust crisis continuum is
Leaders in Private and Public Insurance Sectors and Mental Health Must Establish Codes for Crisis Care Services
Dr. Brian Hepburn, executive director of NASMHPD, says crisis services divert people experiencing mental health crises from the Emergency Department and jails. It matches behavioral health care to the acuity people are experiencing, but funding remains nearly entirely public, hindering much-needed growth.
