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On April 8, 2022, Florida enacted a law that provides nursing homes with more flexibility for meeting minimum staffing requirements. Average minimum direct care hours will remain at about 3.6 … Continued
Compared to other outpatient clinical professionals participating in the 2020 Medicare Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), psychiatrists had performance scores about five percentage points lower than other physicians, at 84.0 … Continued
On April 4, 2022, the Georgia Mental Health Parity Act, House Bill 1013 (HB 1013) was signed into law to enforce mental health parity provisions of private health plans. Starting … Continued
Advances in science continue to provide new treatments for all types of medical conditions including those of high-need consumers with behavioral and cognitive conditions. In 2021, there were 50 new … Continued
Bicycle Health, which provides virtual opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment in 24 states, has new contracts with three Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) in two states. In Michigan, Bicycle Health … Continued
On March 31, 2022, the Illinois Senate passed a bill that would require emergency medical services (EMS) personnel to complete training on caring for and treating individuals with Alzheimer’s disease … Continued
The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), Behavioral Health Division plans to issue grants to qualified respondents to fund non-billable peer recovery service projects. DHS released a request for proposals … Continued
On March 31, 2022, children’s rights advocates sued the New York State Medicaid program for failing to provide children under age 21 with required access to intensive mental and behavioral … Continued
The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) is creating a pilot program to provide intensive residential teams for consumers with I/DD. To do this, the state is seeking a contractor … Continued
On April 8, 2022, the Florida Senate published this Senate Bill (SB) 534 regarding schizophrenia prescriptions for Medicaid recipients. This bill creates an exception from step-therapy authorizations within Medicaid for … Continued
On March 4, 2022, the South Carolina Department of Social Services (SC DSS) published this short-term plan to address overnight stays for children in the foster care system. This plan … Continued
On March 23, 2022, the Charleston Division of the South Carolina U.S. Districe Court published this settlement in the case of Coppinger v. South Carolina. The settlement requires South Carolina … Continued
On April 15, 2022, the California Department of Health Care Services published this pre-release eligibility and enrollment planning support document regarding the Providing Access and Transforming Health (PATH) justice-involved capacity … Continued
Eleanor Health, which provides virtual and in-person addiction and mental health treatment, closed a $50 million Series C financing led by General Catalyst. Eleanor Health will use the newly-raised capital … Continued
Evernorth, the health services business of Cigna Corporation, and Behavioral Health Center of Excellence (BHCOE), a health services accreditor, announced a partnership to develop quality performance measures to assess quality … Continued
The Iowa Department of Human Services plans to close the Glenwood Resource Center (GRC) in 2024. The facility provides residential care and other services for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD). … Continued
Non-profit health systems Intermountain Healthcare and SCL Health completed their merger, creating a model health system with 33 hospitals (including one virtual hospital), and 385 clinics that serve communities in … Continued
Chartwell Retirement Residences entered into agreements to transition, subject to required approvals, its ownership of 16 Ontario long-term care (OLTC) homes with 2,418 beds to AgeCare Health Services Inc. (AgeCare) … Continued
Viz.ai, which provides an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered disease detection and care coordination platform, has raised a $100 million funding round. Viz.ai plans to use the new funding to fuel global … Continued
Allegheny Health Network (AHN) Healthcare@Home, a leader in home and community care services, has acquired TCM Home Health, an award-winning provider of home health services. The agreement was finalized on … Continued
The Board of Directors for CalOptima, the county organized health system serving Orange County, California, approved a five-year strategic plan. The plan includes $100 million for technology to improve health … Continued
Spark Biomedical, Inc., is developing a wearable bioelectric treatment solution for opioid use disorder, and has joined forces with Battelle to jointly run a study to test a device to … Continued
Saladax Biomedical, Inc. (Saladax) has acquired a patent portfolio for antipsychotic drug testing from Janssen Pharmaceutica NV. This intellectual property (IP) portfolio includes 17 patent families and has resulted in … Continued
Despite significant movement, behavioral health is trailing the rest of health care domains in value-based reimbursement contracting. Forty-five percent of specialty provider organizations have some value-based reimbursement (VBR)—compared to 72% … Continued
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