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CEO Update | 06

NABH Focuses on IMD Repeal Exclusion During May’s Mental Health Month NABH on Friday kicked off a monthlong social media campaign centered on urging lawmakers to repeal the Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) exclusion. Mental Health Month in May provides an opportunity for NABH to promote its message that the IMD exclusion blocks access to mental healthcare within a heightened national conversation about mental health. Please follow NABH on Twitter @NAHBbehavioral and on LinkedIn at the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare. And please engage in the conversation by retweeting our messages using the hashtags #MentalHealthMonth and #MHM2018 on Twitter and sharing our messages with your connections on LinkedIn.   House Energy and Commerce Committee to Consider Opioid Legislation Next Week House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-Ore.) announced his full committee will begin to markup legislation to fight the nation’s opioid crisis next week. Walden’s full panel will review the opioid-related bills in its first markup on Wednesday, May 9, and the bills will be posted here on Monday, May 7. The committee announced the second markup is scheduled for Thursday, May 17. In late April, the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee advanced 57 bills to address the opioid crisis and passed 48 of those bills by voice vote.   HSAG Invites Comments on Proposed Screening for Pregnancy Quality Measure On behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG) is inviting healthcare professionals, stakeholder organizations, and individuals to provide comments on the Screening for Pregnancy measure. HSAG’s announcement noted that after the measure is made final, CMS could propose that it be adopted in the Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF) Quality Reporting program. The IPF Outcome and Process Measure Development and Maintenance Project is developing the measure, which assesses the percentage of female patients of childbearing age (15-44 years) admitted to an IPF who have had a pregnancy status in their medical record. The public comment period begins Friday, May 4 and extends through Thursday, May 31 at noon ET. Click here for more information, and click here to submit comments. Please contact Marie Hall at mhall@hsag.com if you have trouble submitting comments.   NIH Launches ‘All of Us’ Research Program The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced its All of Us research program, which is meant to engage 1 million or more volunteers in the United States to contribute their health data to improve health outcomes and stimulate development of new treatments for diseases. The program is a piece of the Precision Medicine Initiative, or PMI, a research effort to transform how we improve health and treat disease. According to the NIH, PMI is intended to leverage advances in genomics; emerging methods for managing and analyzing large data sets while also protecting privacy; and health information technology to hasten biomedical discoveries.   Study Shows Improved Performance in Hospitals Reporting Inpatient Psychiatric Services Measures to The Joint Commission The Joint Commission announced this week that a study in the July 2018 issue of Psychiatric Services shows hospitals reporting inpatient psychiatric services measures to The Joint Commission demonstrated improved performance on measures related to admission screening, multiple antipsychotic medication justification, discharge planning, and restraint and seclusion use.   For questions or comments about the CEO Update, please contact Jessica Zigmond.