MHA Releases ‘State of Mental Health in America’ Report for 2023
More than 50 million Americans experienced a mental illness between 2019 and 2020, while more than one in 10 youth in the United States experience depression that is severely impairing their ability to function at school or work, at home, with family, or in their social life, according to a new report from Mental Health America (MHA).
The State of Mental Health in America is a nearly 40-page chartbook that provides a baseline to answer some questions about how many people in America need and have access to mental health services. The report is a companion piece to interactive data available on MHA’s
website.
Using publicly available data from the 50 states and Washington, D.C., MHA used a set of 15 measures, such as adults with any mental illness, adults with thoughts of suicide, and youth with substance use disorder in the last year. MHA noted that the Covid-19 pandemic negatively affected the ability to collect data for national surveillance in 2020; consequently, the indicators in this year’s report cannot be compared with previous years.
The findings also reported that the majority of individuals with a substance use disorder in the U.S. are not receiving treatment, and that there are about 350 individuals for every one mental healthcare provider in the United States.
SAMHSA Announces $15 Million in Early 2023 for CCBHCs
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) this week
announced it will award $15 million early next year to expand access to planning grants for certified community behavioral health clinics (CCBHCs) to all 50 states.
This funding—along with the $300 million that SAMHSA awarded in September for both new and existing CCBHCs—comes from the
Bipartisan Safer Communities Act that President Biden signed in June.
CMS Releases FAQs About Medicaid and CHIP Determinations and Renewals After PHE Ends
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Oct. 17 answers to frequently asked
questions about the agency’s March 2022
guidance to states regarding planning efforts to resume Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) eligibility determinations and renewals after the Covid-19 public health emergency ends.
The FAQs address the unwinding period, renewals and changes in circumstances, non-MAGI ex parte renewals, section 1902(e)(14)(A) waivers, premiums, fraud, and more.
New Reports Examine Telehealth Laws & Medicaid Policies and Trauma & Recovery for Youth
The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) this week released its Fall 2022
summary of telehealth laws and Medicaid program policies, which allows users to export data for each state into a PDF document. CCHP provides bi-annual summary reports to provide a snapshot of the progress made in the past six months.
Also this week, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network released A Trauma-Informed Guide for Working with Youth in Multiple Settings, which is intended for people who work with youth involved in multiple systems (YIMS) and their families to use a traumatic stress perspective and provide trauma-informed care.
The report defines YIMS as children and adolescents who are under the care or supervision of multiple child and family-serving systems. They include “crossover youth” or “dually involved youth” who are involved in child welfare (CW) and in the juvenile justice (JJ) system. In addition to CW and JJ involvement, YIMS are also often simultaneously involved in an array of other service systems including immigration, legal, education, family services, physical and behavioral health systems and systems designed to serve those with developmental disabilities or who experience homelessness.
Register Today for Oct. 27 Webinar on CPT Coding and Billing Changes for Mental Health in 2023
The Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychiatric Association will host a webinar about what to expect in CPT coding and billing changes for mental health in 2023 on Thursday, Oct. 27.
Stephen Gillaspy, Ph.D., senior director of health and healthcare financing at the American Psychological Association, will lead the presentation about the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed changes outlined in the agency’s 2023 physician fee schedule proposed
rule.
The webinar will focus on new CPT codes and changes to existing codes, expanding the outpatient Evaluation and Management (E/M) documentation guidelines to the facility setting, and other CMS proposals, such as “incident to” billing that, if implemented, will have a significant effect on mental and behavioral clinicians beginning Jan. 1, 2023.
The hourlong webinar will begin at 12:30 p.m. ET. Click
here to register.
Enhanced NABH Denial-of-Care Portal is Now Available
NABH recently made enhancements to its Denial-of-Care Portal that are intended to make the portal easier for members to use.
A year ago, NABH developed the Denial-of-Care Portal to collect specific data on insurers who deny care—often without regard to parity or the effects on patients. Now the association has updated this resource to make it more user-friendly for members and also more aligned with what regulators need to identify parity violations.
The updated portal includes fewer questions, which will require less time for members to complete. In addition, all questions are now optional. NABH hopes this will make it more likely for members to share the data they have. Lastly, NABH has added a checklist of “red flags” that were included in the
2022 MHPAEA Report to Congress from the U.S. Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury Departments in January.
Please e-mail
Emily Wilkins, NABH’s administrative coordinator, if you have questions about the portal.
Save the Date for the NABH 2023 Annual Meeting!
Please mark your calendars and plan to join us in Washington, DC from
June 12-14, 2023 for next year’s NABH Annual Meeting!
Fact of the Week
More seniors in 2022 (28%) than in 2021 (20%) said the cost of care affected their ability to seek treatment for a mental health condition, according to a
survey of seniors that the
Pan Foundation conducted in May 2022.
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