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APA Makes Recommendations to HHS Secretary About Community Mental Health Demonstration Programs

As the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) prepares to implement a project called Demonstration Programs to Improve Community Mental Health Services, APA has forwarded several recommendations to HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell that it believes will facilitate implementation of the project, whose goal is to bring comprehensive mental health treatment, especially for serious mental illness, to far more Medicaid beneficiaries who need such care. The demonstration program was included in PL-113-93, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, which dealt with how physicians would be paid under Medicare for the...

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Published By: Psychiatric News - 2 days ago