Behavioral Health Business March 6, 2025
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Medicaid faces potential cuts after the Republican-led Congress passed a budget resolution to slash the outlays overseen by the House Energy and Commerce Committee — which oversees Medicare and Medicaid spending — by $880 billion over the next decade.
Cutbacks on Medicaid will likely have significant implications for behavioral health providers and patients.
This is especially true in areas within behavioral health where Medicaid beneficiaries are overrepresented, including substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and serious mental illness (SMI) care.
We’ve already seen Medicaid’s uncertain future impact the industry. Earlier this week, the SMI startup firsthand went through a round of layoffs, which sources told BHB were attributed to uncertainty and potential Medicaid cuts.
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