News

Alerts, news releases, and position papers to keep you in the know.

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Access CEO Updates

Resources

HHS: Assessing the Impact of Parity in the Large Group Employer-Sponsored Insurance Market

Resources

AAP: Nonmedical Prescription Opioid Use by Parents and Adolescents in the United States

Resources

JAMA: Assessment of Changes in the Geographical Distribution of Opioid-Related Mortality Across the United States

Resources

Pew Research Center Report: Most U.S. Teens See Anxiety and Depression as a Major Problem Among Their Peers

Resources

NABH and Mental Health America Alert Nation’s Governors about CMS Opportunity to Address Mental Health and SUD

Resources

JAMA Infographic: Mental Health Clinician Shortage, Long-term Unemployment Associated with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

Resources

Joint Commission Updates the National Patient Safety Goal for Suicide Prevention

Letters

NABH Sends Comments to CMS On Conditions of Participation (CoP)

Newsletters

NABH Inside Scoop: CMS Announces Demonstration Projects for SMI and SED

Resources

2018 Annual Survey

Analysis

NABH Analysis: The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (H.R. 6)

Resources

NABH Seeks 2019 Board Nominations

As the Selection Committee prepares to consider possible nominees, we would like you to help us identify potential candidates for: the position of Board Chair-Elect and two Board seats that will become available in 2019. The Selection Committee is particularly interested in identifying senior managers who represent the broad diversity within the NABH membership, including […]

Letters

NABH Submits FY 2019 OPPS Comments to CMS

News Releases

NABH Applauds Congress for Reaching Agreement on Opioid-Response Package

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jessica Zigmond 202.393.6700, ext. 101 jessica@nabh.org NABH Applauds Congress for Reaching Agreement on Opioid-Response Package WASHINGTON, DC (September 26, 2018) — On behalf of more than 1,000 mental health hospitals and addiction treatment centers, the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare thanks Congress for reaching an agreement to address America’s deadly […]

News Releases

NABH Maps Out Pathways to a Better Addiction Treatment System

The National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH) today released Pathways to Care: Treating Opioid and Substance Use Disorders, a white paper that offers practical and applicable approaches to fixing America’s frayed substance use disorder treatment delivery system.

Letters

Politico-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Poll on Opioid Crisis

Letters

NABH Inside Scoop: CMS Proposes Payment Increases for PHPs and CMHCs in 2019

Letters

NABH Comments on the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA)

NABH has sent comments about implementing the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) to the Administration for Children and Families at HHS.

Letters, Statements

NABH Commends Policymakers for Introducing Bill to Boost Behavioral Healthcare Workforce

NABH has sent letters to policymakers in the House and Senate who introduced respective versions of the Opioid Workforce Act of 2018 to expand and improve addiction medicine, addiction psychiatry, or pain management residency positions to address America’s opioid crisis.

News Releases

NABH Sends FY 2019 IPF-PPS Proposed Rule Comments to CMS

NABH has sent comments to CMS about the agency’s proposed FY 2019 rule for inpatient psychiatric facilities.

Newsletters

NABH Inside Scoop: U.S. House Passes IMD CARE Act and Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety

News Releases

News Release

NABH issued a news release about the need for wider access to behavioral healthcare services in the United States after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported this week that suicide rates have increased in nearly every state from 1999 to 2016.

Statements

Behavioral Health Update (for members of NABH & the American Hospital Association) – June 2018

Statements

NABH Sends Letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee on Opioid Policy

The National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH)—on behalf of our more than 1,000 psychiatric hospitals, addiction treatment facilities, general hospital psychiatric and addiction treatment units, residential treatment centers, youth services organizations, outpatient networks, and other providers of care—thanks you for this opportunity to provide policy options for addressing the opioid crisis.

Resources

Signature Healthcare Services’ Aurora San Diego Hospital Hosts Congressional Site Visit

NABH Member Hosts Congressional Site Visit NABH member Signature Healthcare Services’ Aurora San Diego hospital recently hosted Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.), who toured the facility and met with hospital leaders to discuss some the biggest challenges facing the behavioral healthcare industry. Aurora San Diego provides mental health and substance abuse services both on an inpatient […]

Newsletters

NABH Inside Scoop: Behavioral Health Provisions of the FY 2018 Funding Agreement

On March 23, the President signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY 2018 (H.R. 1625), known more commonly as the “Omnibus.” The measure finances government operations through Sept. 30, the remainder of FY 2018 and provides $1.3 trillion in FY 2018 discretionary spending.

News Releases

We are the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare

WASHINGTON, DC (March 19, 2018) —The Board of Trustees of the former National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems (NAPHS) announced the association has changed its name to the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH), effective Monday, March 19, 2018.

Statements

NABH Letter to House Ways and Means on Opioid Policies

Newsletters

NABH Inside Scoop: President Trump’s FY 2019 Budget Proposes $17 billion to Address Opioid Crisis

The Trump administration included nearly $17 billion to combat the nation’s opioid crisis in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget request the White House released today.

Press

Ligature Risk Guidance from CMS

Newsletters

NABH Inside Scoop: White House Opioid Commission’s Final Report Recommends Removing IMD Exclusion

President Trump’s opioid commission reiterated its earlier recommendation to remove the Medicaid Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) exclusion in one of several policy changes the panel suggested in its final report on Thursday.

Press

NABH Drafts Opioid Crisis White Paper

Letters

NABH sends comments to CMS on CY 2018 OPPS Rule

News Releases

NABH release: “Jessica Zigmond Joins NABH as Director of Communications”

News Releases

NABH release: “Scott Dziengelski Joins NABH as Director of Policy and Regulatory Affairs”

Statements

CMS proposed rule on inpatient PPS for acute-care hospitals

CMS proposed rule on inpatient PPS for acute-care hospitals (including section on IPF Quality Reporting Program). See pages 20120-20127 on IPFQR. Also see CMS news release and fact sheet.

News Releases

NABH release: “Julia E. Richardson Joins NABH as Director of Advocacy and Senior Counsel”

News Releases

NABH release: “Sen. Christopher Murphy (D-CT) Receives ‘Mental Health Champion Award’ from National Association for Behavioral Healthcare”

News Releases

NABH release: “Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) Receives ‘Mental Health Champion Award’ from National Association for Behavioral Healthcare”

News Releases

NABH ad as seen in Politico and Roll Call titled “Helping Americans with mental and substance use conditions is important to overall health and to our economy.

NABH ad as seen in Politico and Roll Call titled “Helping Americans with mental and substance use conditions is important to overall health and to our economy. Congress agreed….Save lives, families, and communities with behavioral health.”

News Releases

Partnership to Amend 42 CFR Part 2 comment letter to SAMHSA

Partnership to Amend 42 CFR Part 2 comment letter to SAMHSA on a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking on “Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records”

News Releases

NABH release: “Shawn Coughlin Joins NABH as Executive Vie President for Government Relations and Public Policy”

News Releases

News

Alerts, news releases, and position papers to keep you in the know.

MEMBERS: KEEP UP ON THE LATEST BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE NEWS!

HHS: Assessing the Impact of Parity in the Large Group Employer-Sponsored Insurance Market

AAP: Nonmedical Prescription Opioid Use by Parents and Adolescents in the United States

JAMA: Assessment of Changes in the Geographical Distribution of Opioid-Related Mortality Across the United States

Pew Research Center Report: Most U.S. Teens See Anxiety and Depression as a Major Problem Among Their Peers

NABH and Mental Health America Alert Nation’s Governors about CMS Opportunity to Address Mental Health and SUD

JAMA Infographic: Mental Health Clinician Shortage, Long-term Unemployment Associated with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

Sharing Data, Saving Lives: The Hospital Agenda for Interoperability

NABH Joins Coalition to Stop Opioid Overdose

NABH Submits Comments on CMS’ Managed Care Rule

2019 Exhibitor & Sponsor Advertising Opportunities

NABH 2018 Year in Review

Behavioral Health Update: January 7, 2019

Behavioral Health IT Coalition Sends Letter to CMS

Joint Commission Updates the National Patient Safety Goal for Suicide Prevention

NABH Sends Comments to CMS On Conditions of Participation (CoP)

NABH Inside Scoop: CMS Announces Demonstration Projects for SMI and SED

2018 Annual Survey

NABH Analysis: The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (H.R. 6)

NABH Seeks 2019 Board Nominations

NABH Submits FY 2019 OPPS Comments to CMS

NABH Applauds Congress for Reaching Agreement on Opioid-Response Package

NABH Maps Out Pathways to a Better Addiction Treatment System

Politico-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Poll on Opioid Crisis

NABH Inside Scoop: CMS Proposes Payment Increases for PHPs and CMHCs in 2019

NABH Comments on the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA)

NABH Commends Policymakers for Introducing Bill to Boost Behavioral Healthcare Workforce

NABH Sends FY 2019 IPF-PPS Proposed Rule Comments to CMS

NABH Inside Scoop: U.S. House Passes IMD CARE Act and Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety

News Release

Behavioral Health Update (for members of NABH & the American Hospital Association) – June 2018

NABH Sends Letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee on Opioid Policy

Signature Healthcare Services’ Aurora San Diego Hospital Hosts Congressional Site Visit

NABH Inside Scoop: Behavioral Health Provisions of the FY 2018 Funding Agreement

We are the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare

NABH Letter to House Ways and Means on Opioid Policies

NABH Inside Scoop: President Trump’s FY 2019 Budget Proposes $17 billion to Address Opioid Crisis

Ligature Risk Guidance from CMS

NABH Inside Scoop: White House Opioid Commission’s Final Report Recommends Removing IMD Exclusion

NABH Drafts Opioid Crisis White Paper

NABH sends comments to CMS on CY 2018 OPPS Rule

NABH release: “Jessica Zigmond Joins NABH as Director of Communications”

NABH release: “Scott Dziengelski Joins NABH as Director of Policy and Regulatory Affairs”

CMS proposed rule on inpatient PPS for acute-care hospitals

NABH release: “Julia E. Richardson Joins NABH as Director of Advocacy and Senior Counsel”

NABH release: “Sen. Christopher Murphy (D-CT) Receives ‘Mental Health Champion Award’ from National Association for Behavioral Healthcare”

NABH release: “Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) Receives ‘Mental Health Champion Award’ from National Association for Behavioral Healthcare”

NABH ad as seen in Politico and Roll Call titled “Helping Americans with mental and substance use conditions is important to overall health and to our economy.

Partnership to Amend 42 CFR Part 2 comment letter to SAMHSA

NABH release: “Shawn Coughlin Joins NABH as Executive Vie President for Government Relations and Public Policy”

NABH Briefing: “Top Advocacy Expert Shawn Coughlin Joins NABH