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55% Of Behavioral Health Professionals Accepted New Appointments For Medicare Or Medicaid Beneficiaries, With A 30-Day Wait For Many, A Survey StatesÂ
July 21, 2025About 55% of behavioral health professionals serving Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries accepted new appointments in 2023, according to a federal survey report. However, 24% reported wait times of more than 30 days for a new appointment. About 5% had wait… -
Kentucky Medicaid Planning To Refer Unemployed Expansion Beneficiaries To Job Placement Assistance Ahead Of Federal Budget Bill Medicaid Work RequirementÂ
July 21, 2025The Kentucky Medicaid program plans to implement a work and work preparation requirement for able-bodied beneficiaries in the Medicaid expansion population that would require them to participate in job placement assistance. The state estimates that about 60,000 of the 459,380… -
Home-Based Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Reduced Fibromyalgia Pain More Than A Sham TreatmentÂ
July 21, 2025A device for home use that provides self-applied anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (A-tDCS) reduced fibromyalgia pain more than a sham treatment, according to a randomized clinical trial in Brazil involving 112 women with fibromyalgia. Exercise instructions and pain neuroscience… -
Iowa Unifies Behavioral Health & Disability Services Under New System With Centralized Navigation, Standardized Rates
July 18, 2025On July 1, 2025, the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched its newly designed Behavioral Health and Disability Services Systems. It features a statewide behavioral health administrative service organization (BH-ASO) and four regional Disability Access Points (DAPs) that… -
Antipsychotic Discontinuation Linked To Lower Rehospitalization In Older Adults After Acute Hospitalization
July 17, 2025Among older adults without psychiatric disorders who filled a prescription for an antipsychotic prescribed to manage hospitalization-related delirium but later stopped taking the medication, the risk of rehospitalization and all-cause mortality was lower than among a similar group who did… -
Pediatric Mental Health Hospitalizations Decline For First Time Since 2009, But 1 In 5 Pediatric Hospitalizations Are For Mental HealthÂ
July 17, 2025Between 2019 and 2022, the total number of pediatric mental health hospitalizations declined for the first time since 2009, according to a recent study. However, the number of mental health hospitalizations as a percentage of total hospitalizations increased steadily from… -
Iowa Ends Annual Insurance Limits On Autism Coverage
July 17, 2025On July 1, 2025, a new Iowa state law went into effect that prohibits commercial insurance plans from imposing an aggregate annual or lifetime limit on coverage benefits for medically necessary services, including applied behavior analysis (ABA) for residents with… -
Single-Dose Psilocybin Shows Lasting Mental Health Benefits For Those With CancerÂ
July 17, 2025A single dose of psilocybin—a naturally occurring psychedelic compound found in certain mushrooms—combined with psychological therapy can provide sustained reductions in depression and anxiety in individuals with cancer and major depressive disorder (MDD), according to the results of an ongoing… -
Maryland Updates Opioid Fund Rules & Adds Paramedic Buprenorphine ProgramÂ
July 17, 2025On July 1, 2025, three new bills in Maryland went into effect to expand access to opioid use disorder treatment by giving local governments greater access to funds from the state’s opioid settlement. Two of the bills modify how the… -
Brightli & Centerstone Plan Merger To Form $1 Billion Behavioral Health Powerhouse Across Nine States
July 17, 2025On July 17, 2025, non-profit behavioral health provider organizations Brightli and Centerstone entered into a non-binding agreement with the intent to merge and create a unified organization. The result would be a large non-profit specialty provider organization with more than…
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