Five Developments in 2009 Worth Revisiting: The Legislative, Regulatory, & Judicial Changes Shifting Our Paradigm

OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry Outlook Last month, I wrote about some of the key consumer market trends shaping health and human services—iPods, alternative health care, web functionality, cell phones, and more. But, there are another set of influences on the market that come from government—changes in regulation, legislation, and court decisions that shape the financing and delivery of services. While most of the coverage of changes in government this year have been on parity legislation, last year there were five key changes in the government landscape that may potentially affect your . . .