Mental health advocates worry it could be difficult for people with mental health conditions to prove they qualify for ...

Delayed access to care often leads to more severe illness, greater emergency department use, and higher health care costs.

The VA announced this month that by Oct. 1, its staff will have shrunk by about 30,000 employees this year. That’s roughly a ...

Republican leaders are considering drastic cuts to Medicaid funding. The cuts could have a significant impact on low-income households, older adults, children, and people with mental health disorders.

Dive Brief: Higher primary care Medicaid reimbursement rates improve behavioral health outcomes among enrollees, according to a new report by the National Bureau of Economic Research.. The report ...

A report from the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general finds a dire shortage of mental health care providers in Medicaid and Medicare, which together serve some 40% of Americans.

Proposed Medicaid cuts would impact mental health, substance abuse services in Brown County, experts say. Benita Mathew, Green Bay Press-Gazette. Wed, May 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM UTC.

Until recently, many state Medicaid programs financed and managed behavioral health (BH) services for enrollees with serious mental illnesses (SMI) and others with high BH needs separately from ...

But behavioral health services, such as a psychological test to assess mental health function, are not one of the federally required Medicaid services, like a primary care doctor visit.