Behavioral Health Business May 26, 2023
Most state Medicaid programs don’t cover all of the three core behavioral health crisis response services recommended by federal guidelines.
Crisis response services play a vital role in alleviating constituencies that have heretofore struggled to address increasing rates of behavioral health crises, notably busy emergency departments and law enforcement. And the evolution of these services has accelerated in recent years after concentrated congressional and executive actions by the federal government.
The three services that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) prescribe are crisis hotlines, mobile crisis units and crisis stabilization units. SAMHSA further suggests that states cover and act as a coordinating force between all three services to prevent fragmentation.
As part of a newly released...
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