Behavioral Health Enters ‘Uncertainty Era’ After Chevron Doctrine Ends

Behavioral Health Business July 9, 2024
Chris Larson

The U.S. Supreme Court has handed the behavioral health industry a bag of uncertainty with the elimination of the decade’s old Chevron doctrine.

The removal of the Chevron doctrine, a high-profile legal decision, makes it easier for behavioral health providers to poke holes in state and federal rules that rely on regulatory agencies’ interpretations of statute. But now that judges don’t have to rely on agency interpretation, there is going to be significant turmoil and regional variability in the rules and regulations that implement statutes until time allows the new norm to find some semblance of equilibrium.

“It’s a sea change,” Alicia Macklin, a partner with and co-chair of the behavioral health practice group for Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, P.C.,...

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