Future of Behavioral Healthcare: NABH Insights by Shawn Coughlin
Delve into the future landscape of behavioral healthcare with insights from NABH President and CEO Shawn Coughlin. Explore the critical aspects of Need, Awareness, Bipartisanship, and Headwinds shaping the industry, along with strategies for expanding access to care post-Covid-19. Discover the key areas to address in Behavioral Health Information Technology (BHIT) and the potential impact of ACOs and new technologies on enhancing behavioral healthcare delivery.
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Shaping the Future of Behavioral Healthcare Shawn Coughlin, NABH President and CEO
NABH: Need, Awareness, Bipartisanship, Headwinds NABH: Need Awareness Bipartisanship Headwinds
NABH: Need, Awareness, Bipartisanship, Headwinds NEED: Covid s Toll Ongoing Opioid Crisis Suicide
NABH: Need, Awareness, Bipartisanship, Headwinds AWARENESS: Telehealth Expansion Parity Enforcement Greater Awareness Often Leads to Better Access
NABH: Need, Awareness, Bipartisanship, Headwinds BIPARTISANSHIP: 988 Behavioral Health Crisis Hotline Senate Finance and HELP Committees House Energy and Commerce & Ways and Means Committees Bipartisan Addiction and Mental Health Task Force State & Local Policies
NABH: Need, Awareness, Bipartisanship, Headwinds HEADWINDS: Increased Demand Decreased Capacity: Workforce Challenges Health Worker Burnout
Building on Covid-19 Experience to Expand Access to Care Public Health Emergency Flexibilities: Continue to expand coverage of telehealth, including audio-only services Maintain telehealth reimbursement rates comparable with in-person treatment Continue to allow take-home methadone medication Continue to allow buprenorphine prescribing via telehealth for new and existing patients Maintain regulatory flexibility for practitioners to practice to full extent of license Increase behavioral healthcare supports for healthcare professionals
Areas to Address BHIT: What data are important and improve our ability to meet quality requirements? Have we identified all regulatory barriers to behavioral healthcare delivery? ACOs: How do they apply to behavioral healthcare? Are there new workforce improvement initiatives we should pursue? Can new technologies improve access/delivery of behavioral healthcare?
Ongoing Challenges Repeal the IMD Exclusion Eliminate the Medicare 190-day lifetime limit Increase support for education services in RTPs Ensure funding for 988 behavioral health crisis hotline Allow methadone induction via telehealth Expand the mental health workforce Enforce parity
NABH: Shaping the Future Strong and Growing Building the Behavioral Healthcare Continuum NABH Members Leading the Way: Access. Care. Recovery
