Access to Behavioral Health
Health care providers and other stakeholders may email questions and concerns regarding the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ final rule applying certain provisions of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 to Medicaid managed care organizations, Medicaid…
Progress on addressing the opioid epidemic.
Held June 21, 2016
Please join a group of your executive colleagues for a webinar and discussion. Jeffrey R. Martin, M.D., Associate Director, Family and Community Medicine and Managing Physician, Care Connections, Lancaster General Health, Lancaster, PA will describe Care Connections, a…
AHA Letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders on Mental Health Bill.
Every day, hospitals see the devastating effects of the U.S. opioid epidemic. While prescription opioids can be a safe and necessary part of pain management, these drugs also carry serious risks of harm because of the potential for addiction, misuse, overdose and death.
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Update on Key Issues in the Behavioral Health Care Field: June 2016
AHA letter to the Department of Health and Human Services regarding medication-assisted treatment for opiod user disorders.
Community Hospital of Monterey (Calif.) Peninsula (CHOMP), part of Montage Health, took action two years ago to address the prescription opioid abuse crisis in its county of some 415,000 residents. The community-wide effort, called Prescribe Safe, has led to a sharp decline in the number of…