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Tips, tools, and resources to help you
support kids staying safe online.
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Behavioral healthcare
advocacy that achieves results

Bringing a wealth of expertise to the leaders of the
nation’s behavioral healthcare organizations.
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NABH Education and Research
Foundation’s Workforce Startup Guide.

Learn how to adopt a skills-based approach to talent management, which organizations can serve as
partners in your workforce-development efforts, and what workforce funding sources are available to
your organizations in the NABH Education and Research Foundation’s Workforce Startup Guide.

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The NABH
Denial-of-Care
Portal in now live.

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ANNUAL MEETING

The 2024 NABH Annual Meeting focused on the future of  behavioral healthcare. Speaker presentations and more are available.
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Get insight into best practices, quality issues, trends, and breaking news affecting your organization.
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BE AN ADVOCATE

Since 1933, NABH has been a leader in behavioral health advocacy and has a proven track record on legislative and regulatory issues.
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RESOURCES

Free resources and publications including white papers, research studies, best practices, and reports for NABH members.
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Advocacy Priorities

2024 is a critically important year as the country continues to face intense access challenges for individuals managing mental health and/or substance use disorders. With demand for NABH services across all age groups nationwide being at an all-time high, ensuring access to mental health and addiction treatment and recovery services could not be more urgent.

NABH’s advocacy priorities reflect the organization’s mission to advance responsive, accountable, and clinically effective prevention, treatment and recovery, and care for children, adolescents, adults, and older adults with mental health and substance use disorder. NABH advocates for these ongoing priorities and will continue to prioritize securing sufficient funding.

Advocacy Priorities

Mental Health

  • Securing the Promise of Parity
  • Behavioral Healthcare Workforce
  • Behavioral Health Information Technology
  • 988 Crisis Stabilization Services
  • EMTALA
  • Psychiatric Hospital Regulations
  • Veteran and Military Healthcare
  • IMD Exclusion
  • 190-day Lifetime Limit

The Addiction Crisis

  • Securing the Promise of Parity
  • Behavioral Healthcare Workforce
  • Behavioral Health Information Technology
  • 988 Crisis Stabilization Services
  • EMTALA
  • Veteran and Military Healthcare
  • Opioid Treatment Programs
  • Telemedicine Coverage
  • Partial Hospitalization
  • Quality and Outcome Measures
  • Alternative Payment Models (APMs)
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Behavioral Healthcare Workforce

We call for legislation to require increased Medicare reimbursement rates for behavioral healthcare providers.
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Securing the Promise of Parity

After nearly 16 years, Americans have yet to see full parity between behavioral and physical healthcare.
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Opioid Treatment Programs

NABH will urge CMS to offer payment rates that provide adequate and appropriate reimbursement for OTP services
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Access to Care