Physician organizations are working to accelerate the integration of behavioral health services into primary care settings and close the unmet need for mental health services and substance use disorder treatment, but physicians cannot solve the crisis on their own.
Rural Emergency Hospitals are a new provider type established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 to address the growing concern over closures of rural hospitals. The REH designation provides an opportunity for Critical Access Hospitals and certain rural hospitals to avert potential closure and continue to provide essential services for the communities they serve.
CMS issued the Calendar Year 2023 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule, which would significantly expand access to behavioral health services, Accountable Care Organizations, cancer screening, and dental care – particularly in rural and underserved areas.
HRSA announced over $155 million in awards for 72 teaching health centers that operate primary care medical and dental residency programs that include high need specialties such as psychiatry, as part of President Biden’s Unity Agenda to address the nation’s mental health crisis.
The Biden Administration, through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, announced a new model aimed at improving cancer care for Medicare patients and lowering health care costs.
With potentially millions of people in danger of losing their health care coverage, the American Medical Association endorsed several policies at the Annual Meeting of its House of Delegates that aim to help them maintain coverage after the public health emergency expires.
The HHS, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, announced the launch of the Building Bridges to Better Health: A Primary Health Care Challenge, a national competition with a total of $1 million in cash prizes to encourage innovation through technical assistance to health centers.
As patients increasingly permit access to their health information by way of third-party applications (apps), the need to ensure the privacy and security of this data has exponentially grown. Many of these apps are not covered entities under HIPAA and are not bound by any current privacy and security requirements
The Department of Health and Human Services, through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, is announcing its first-ever behavioral health Recovery Innovation Challenge.
Recently at the second Global COVID-19 Summit, President Biden announced that the Biden-Harris administration, through the U.S. National Institutes of Health, has licensed 11 COVID-19 research tools and early-stage vaccine and diagnostic candidates to the Medicines Patent Pool through the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool.
Building on a shared commitment to eliminating health inequities, the AMA in collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Joint Commission announced the creation of a learning network designed to help hospital systems apply an equity lens to all aspects of quality and safety practices—
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, awarded nearly $25 million to improve and strengthen access to school-based health services in communities across the country.
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