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...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 21, 2022 | Mental Health
A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found almost 1 in 10 Americans reported suffering from depression in 2020. Researchers from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and City University of New York found that over the past...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 21, 2022 | Mental Health
The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) for the first time recommended that all adults under age 65 be regularly screened for anxiety. The recommendation applies to adults aged 19 and older, including pregnant and postpartum people, who do not have a...
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...
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