Tequila Terry shares how a new CMS model, called Total Cost of Care, is helping drive and fund innovation in Maryland to expand behavioral health crisis services.
Tom Betlach shares how states can use a one-year HCBS 10% federal medical assistance percentage bump to build out their behavioral health crisis systems in preparation for 988. Today is the deadline.
Kirsten Beronio, JD, Policy and Regulatory Affairs director at the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare, says states can, at least in part, draw upon several existing CMS initiatives to develop or strengthen their crisis care systems before 988—the nationwide three-digit number for behavioral health emergencies—becomes a reality on July 16,
David W. Covington, LPC, MBA, RI International CEO & President, responded to the policy debate in the January issue of Psychiatric Services on Medicaid’s IMD exclusion rule with a letter to the editor. He writes that he supports an IMD waiver as a transitional step to help communities evolve a
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