Mental Health

House Passes Bipartisan Medicaid and CHIP Behavioral Health Provisions, Senate Committees Act: Here’s a Breakdown

Last week, the House of Representatives passed its Support for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act. Passing on a broad bipartisan basis, the bill would reauthorize certain provisions of the 2018 SUPPORT Act such as those supporting individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) like requiring state Medicaid programs to provide coverage for medication-assisted treatment in addition […]

Anne Dwyer

December 18, 2023

New Federal Rules Seek To Strengthen Mental Health Parity

By Maanasa Kona, Assistant Research Professor at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms On July 25, 2023, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury (the tri-agencies) proposed a new rule to strengthen the enforcement of the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) and ensure that patients can access mental health and substance […]

Guest

November 2, 2023

HHS Takes Action on Maternal Mental Health Initiatives, Requests Input on Medicaid/CHIP Parity Compliance

Last week, the Administration announced a number of actions related to mental health with a focus on maternal health as well as parity in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Here’s a readout of the latest actions: Maternal Health Funding: HHS announced awards of more than $103 million to support and expand access […]

Anne Dwyer

October 3, 2023

Administration Releases Medicaid and CHIP Mental Health and SUD Action Plan, Parity Initiatives

In another round of mental health-related announcements, this week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a Medicaid and CHIP Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Action Plan alongside Administration announcements focused on mental health parity. The seventeen page Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Action Plan provides an overview of Medicaid and […]

Anne Dwyer

July 27, 2023

Maternal Mental Health Month Shines Light on Need for Policy Solutions

May is a month for moms: we celebrate Mother’s Day, it’s maternal mental health awareness month, and Congressional leaders chose May to reintroduce the Black Maternal Health Momnibus, a group of a dozen bills designed to address all facets of the Black maternal mortality crisis. Giving birth and taking care of a young child is […]

Maggie Clark

May 25, 2023

State Medicaid Child Behavioral Health Data: Dashboard Library Update

First debuted in 2021, CCF’s Child Health Dashboard Library highlights states that post important information about children with Medicaid/CHIP into a central and easily accessible location in a readable (or even better, interactive) format. This includes data on enrollment, quality of care, utilization rates, and managed care performance – the type of information that is […]

Anne Dwyer, Hannah Klukoff May 11, 2023