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NABH Submits FY 2019 OPPS Comments to CMS

NABH Applauds Congress for Reaching Agreement on Opioid-Response Package

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jessica Zigmond 202.393.6700, ext. 101 jessica@nabh.org   NABH Applauds Congress for Reaching Agreement on Opioid-Response Package WASHINGTON, DC (September 26, 2018) — On behalf of more than 1,000 mental health hospitals and addiction treatment centers, the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare thanks Congress for reaching an agreement to address America’s deadly opioid crisis. The final package includes many NABH-supported measures and contains the first substantive change to the Medicaid program’s burdensome Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) exclusion since the early 1970s. “NABH thanks House Energy and…

NABH Maps Out Pathways to a Better Addiction Treatment System

The National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH) today released Pathways to Care: Treating Opioid and Substance Use Disorders, a white paper that offers practical and applicable approaches to fixing America’s frayed substance use disorder treatment delivery system.

Politico-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Poll on Opioid Crisis

NABH Inside Scoop: CMS Proposes Payment Increases for PHPs and CMHCs in 2019

NABH Comments on the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA)

NABH has sent comments about implementing the Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) to the Administration for Children and Families at HHS.

NABH Commends Policymakers for Introducing Bill to Boost Behavioral Healthcare Workforce

NABH has sent letters to policymakers in the House and Senate who introduced respective versions of the Opioid Workforce Act of 2018 to expand and improve addiction medicine, addiction psychiatry, or pain management residency positions to address America’s opioid crisis.

NABH Sends FY 2019 IPF-PPS Proposed Rule Comments to CMS

NABH has sent comments to CMS about the agency’s proposed FY 2019 rule for inpatient psychiatric facilities.

NABH Inside Scoop: U.S. House Passes IMD CARE Act and Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety

News Release

NABH issued a news release about the need for wider access to behavioral healthcare services in the United States after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported this week that suicide rates have increased in nearly every state from 1999 to 2016.