Relatedly, many mental health providers may not offer a sliding scale or accept Medicare/Medicaid insurance.129 As an example, among AMD patients, depression scores were significantly improved in older adults who received four to 12 anti-VEGF treatments as compared to those who rec...
BackgroundDramatic changes have occurred in mental health treatments during the past decade. Data on recent treatment patterns are needed to estimate the
Ultimately, embedding SSIs into existing mental health support systems will require changes in how insurers reimburse treatment (currently, there is no Medicaid reimbursement code for single-session therapies); major shifts in how therapists are trained (most are never exposed to single-session approac...
Public health professionals say respite facilities can potentially play a big role in addressing anational mental health crisisthat accelerated dramatically during theCOVID-19 pandemic, especially when it comes to suicide prevention. "It's a really important piece of the larger puzzle of how to impr...
More than a dozen states now have near-total abortion bans following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, with limited medical exceptions meant to protect the patient's health or life.
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The state's mental and behavioral healthreimbursement rateshave been set arbitrarily, said Kristy Graume with the Minnesota Department of Human Services. They aren't based on justified costs and have not kept pace with the expense of providing services, she said. ...
Community mental health clinics, however, are seeing an influx of new Medicaid patients. “It’s pretty remarkable that insurance companies treat psychiatric care different than they treat all other care,” Zane said. “For some reason, brain failure is different than heart failure. That is one...