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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that more mental health providers can enroll as Medicare providers, including marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors ...
A 2001 article in the public health journal Health Affairs studied fifty years of American public opinion of various health care plans and concluded that, while there appears to be general support of a "national health care plan," poll respondents "remain satisfied with their current medical arrangements, do not trust the federal government to ...
The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 (MHSA) was legislation signed by American President Jimmy Carter which provided grants to community mental health centers. In 1981 President Ronald Reagan, who had made major efforts during his governorship to reduce funding and enlistment for California mental institutions, pushed a political effort through the Democratically controlled House of ...
The 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act already requires insurers and corporate-backed health plans to provide access and payment structures for mental health care services on par ...
Address mental health with the same urgency as physical health. Mental Health Care Is Consumer and Family Driven. Develop an individualized plan of care for every adult with a serious mental illness and child with a serious emotional disturbance. Involve consumers and families fully in orienting the mental health system toward recovery.
Some 40% of mental health providers—marriage and family therapists and mental health counselors—all of whom are all at least Master’s level trained and licensed, were excluded from Medicare ...
Managed care plans and strategies proliferated and quickly became nearly ubiquitous in the U.S. However, this rapid growth led to a consumer backlash. Because many managed care health plans are provided by for-profit companies, their cost-control efforts are driven by the need to generate profits and not providing health care. [5]
Advice to help you choose between Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans.