Registration is Open for the 2023 NABH Annual Meeting: Securing the Promise of Parity!
Please plan to join us in Washington, DC from
June 12-14, 2023 for this year’s NABH Annual Meeting at the Salamander Washington, DC (formerly the Mandarin Oriental hotel).
NABH’s theme this year is
Securing the Promise of Parity, which recognizes the
Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act’s (MPAEA) 15
th anniversary and that we have more work to do to ensure the landmark law is implemented fully.
Please visit our Annual Meeting
homepage to register, reserve your hotel room, and view our Annual Meeting At-a-Glance.
We look forward to seeing you in Washington!
Reminder: NABH-Manatt Telehealth Issue Brief Webinar on Wednesday, March 1
Manatt will host a webinar featuring NABH President and CEO Shawn Coughlin and NABH members as panelists on
Wednesday, March 1 at noon ET to highlight findings from the telehealth issue brief that the NABH Education and Research Foundation and Manatt released this month.
The telehealth issue brief is the first resource from the NABH Education and Research Foundation, which worked with NABH members and Manatt to compile and evaluate data to measure the impact that telehealth services have had on access and outcomes. The study showed how telehealth services effectively augment traditional partial hospitalization programs (PHP) and intensive outpatient programs (IOP).
NABH urges its members to read the issue brief and share it with others. The association has also created a social media toolkit with shareable graphics that highlight key research from the study. Members can access the issue brief and social media toolkit on the NABH Education and Research Foundation’s Resources
page.
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here to register for next week’s free webinar.
Biden Administration Will Allow States to Use Medicaid to Cover SUD for Incarcerated Persons
The Biden administration will allow states to use Medicaid funding to cover substance use disorder (SUD) treatment for incarcerated persons at state jails and prisons, news outlets reported this week.
According to
Politico, Rahul Gupta, M.D., director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said Tuesday that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to release guidance this spring that outlines how states could use the program and federal dollars to pay for treatments before people are released.
The story also quoted Gupta as saying the guidance is a “smart move” and that all 112 of the nation’s federal prisons will offer medication-assisted treatment for SUD by this summer.
NIH Trial to Compare Effects of Prescribed Buprenorphine or Methadone in Office Settings
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will conduct a hybrid effectiveness/implementation trial to compare patients’ ability to remain in treatment when they’re prescribed buprenorphine or methadone in an office-based setting,
STAT News reported today.
According to the
story, the clinical trial, scheduled for this year, is the first of its kind in the “fentanyl era.”
“While we do have hints from the scientific literature that methadone has better outcomes with respect to retention in treatment and decreases in illicit drug use, we actually don’t have that literature in patients who are primarily using fentanyl,” David Fiellin, M.D., director of Yale Medical School’s Program in Addiction Medicine and the researcher overseeing the trial, said in the story.
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here for details about the NIH study.
CMS Releases Preliminary Medicaid and CHIP Data Snapshot
CMS this week released
Medicaid and CHIP and the Covid-19 Public Health Emergency, a data snapshot that compares healthcare service utilization patterns, including behavioral healthcare services, in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) during the Covid-19 pandemic from March 2020 through July 2022.
Section five of the report presents the behavioral healthcare content, including services delivered via telehealth and a breakdown of services for adults and children enrolled in these programs.
More than 137 million Americans—including children, pregnant women, parents, seniors, and individuals with disabilities—were enrolled across each state’s Medicaid or CHIP for at least one day during the public health emergency.
Reminder: Please Submit Data to Enhance NABH’s Managed-Care Advocacy Efforts
Thank you to all members who have submitted data to NABH’s denial-of-care portal. Your data will help NABH highlight problems in the field related to health plan denials and timeliness.
Several policymaking entities are interested in these data, which could support advocacy for expanded access to care. For new participants, please e-mail
Emily Wilkins, NABH’s administrative coordinator, for support.
Fact of the Week
Black patients are 1.6 times more likely to experience an involuntary psychiatric hospital admission than non-Black patients, according to a study about racial and ethnic inequities published in
Psychiatric Services.
For questions or comments about this CEO Update, please contact Jessica Zigmond.
