Access to Behavioral Health
In 2014, a group of stakeholders in Kansas City – including representatives from law enforcement, hospitals, courts, city government, mental health, and homeless shelters – started convening monthly to determine how to provide appropriate help to individuals with behavioral health issues who don’t…
To better serve their patients and communities, hospitals across the country are innovating telehealth solutions to efficiently connect patients to care.
Enrollees in large employer health plans with inpatient admissions receive an out-of-network medical bill approximately 18% of the time, according to an analysis released today by Kaiser Family Foundation.
On July 25, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its CY 2019 outpatient prospective payment system/ambulatory surgical center proposed rule. In addition to standard updates, the rule would substantially expand Medicare site-neutral payment policies in several areas and make…
Learn how five local hospital systems created a course to train people to perform "adult mental health first aid," giving members of the public skills to help someone who is developing or experiencing a mental health crisis
Update on Key Issues in the Behavioral Health Care Field: August 2018
Highlights
Webinar on a Mental Health First Aid Training Collaboration in Jacksonville, FL
AHA Special Bulletin that highlights the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' calendar year 2019 outpatient prospective payment system/ambulatory surgical center proposed rule.
In an effort to make care more accessible to its changing community, Washington, D.C.-based Providence Health System will transition out of acute care services by the end of 2018 and will instead offer care coordination, telehealth services and virtual care, primary and urgent care, home care,…
Also in this weekly roundup of news from the field: Atul Gawande to embark on listening tour at new company; physicians are leaving Puerto Rico in great numbers; and replacing vacant lots with green spaces can ease depression in urban communities.