Posts categorized as: Behavioral Health Coverage
Publications:
Behavioral Health Parity Takes Step Backward Under Trump Administration
In a recent article for the Commonwealth Fund, CHIR experts explore how the federal retreat on mental health parity affects state oversight and enforcement, noting the varying responses from states working to maintain or strengthen behavioral health coverage protections.
Exploring Non-Traditional and Innovative Behavioral Health Care Models
This report explores non-traditional and innovative behavioral health care models, such as integrated care, mobile health units, telehealth, and digital tools, to identify the promise and challenges of scaling these models to overcome barriers and expand access in the behavioral health system.
Beyond the Clinic Walls: Exploring the Potential of Mobile Health Executive Summary
This executive summary synthesizes findings from over 160 studies on the impact of mobile health programs on access to care, health outcomes, and costs for primary and specialty care.
A New Federal Rule Can Help Ensure Patients Get the Behavioral Health Care They Need
This article explains how a new federal rule strengthens mental health parity enforcement and could improve access to behavioral health care.
Enforcing Mental Health Parity: State Options to Improve Access to Care
This issue brief describes state policy efforts to strengthen enforcement of mental health parity laws and expand access to care, including by combining existing enforcement tools with new strategies like reviewing access data and insurers’ benefit determination processes.
Understanding and Mitigating Behavioral Health Workforce Shortages
This report examines strategies to understand and mitigate behavioral health workforce shortages in the United States by analyzing state-level efforts to expand and support the supply, training, and distribution of behavioral health providers to improve access to care.
Ensuring Access to Behavioral Health Providers
This article examines policy strategies to improve network adequacy and access to behavioral health services, including by incorporating mental health parity protections into network standards.
Building on Behavioral Health Parity: State Options to Strengthen Access to Care
This article reviews state-level strategies to go beyond federal parity requirements and improve behavioral health access.
Blog Posts:
Behavioral Health Parity Takes Step Backward Under Trump Administration
In a recent article for the Commonwealth Fund, CHIR experts explore how the federal retreat on menta...
Federal Rule Gives Regulators Enhanced Tools to Ensure Equitable Access to Behavioral Health Care
Last fall, the Biden Administration finalized a rule updating standards for the Mental Health Parity...
Enforcing Mental Health Parity: State Options to Improve Access to Care
The 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) is the primary federal law protectin...