Behavioral Health Business January 18, 2022
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the nation’s top health care regulator, will tackle three major initiatives within the behavioral health space in 2022 as the Biden administration enters its second year.
The agency holds up increasing access, promoting equity, tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and enhancing the priorities of children and families as key rhetorical points at the heart of the many specific objectives for 2022. Behavioral health is key to those objectives, according to a regulatory priorities document published by HHS.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear that too many Americans have unmet behavioral health needs, which have seen an alarming rise during the pandemic due to illness, grief, job loss, food insecurity, and isolation,”...