Behavioral Health Business April 12, 2024
New government findings add details to the lack of availability of behavioral health services for America’s poor and elderly.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Health and Human Services Department found that about one-third of behavioral health providers in selected counties serve patients in the Medicare, Medicare Advantage, or Medicaid programs.
“Despite unprecedented demand for behavioral health services, treatment rates in all three programs remained relatively low,” the OIG said in a new report. “A large barrier to accessing behavioral health care is that there are not enough behavioral health providers in many parts of the country to meet the need for behavioral health services.”
The report studied 20 counties — 10 rural and 10 urban...
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