Advocacy
2019 Advocacy
Priorities
Nearly 20% of Americans experience a mental illness or substance use disorder. This year 45,000 Americans will die by suicide, 63,000 will die from drug overdoses and 100,000 more will have their first episode of psychosis. This is why we advocate, and who we advocate for.
Please click here to see our 2019 Advocacy Priorities.
Removing Barriers to Care
Congress should eliminate outdated federal rules blocking access to cost-effective treatments.
Combating the Opioid Crisis
Congress should increase access to substance use disorder treatment.
Expanding the Behavioral Health Workforce
Congress should expand the mental health and substance use disorder workforce.
CEO Update
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CMS Finalizes OTP Provisions in 2020 Physician Fee Schedule The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized provisions for the nation’s opioid treatment programs (OTPs) in the 2020 Physician Fee Schedule regulation that the agency released on Nov. 1. NABH released an NABH Analysis that provides a summary of those provisions, which provide for the treatment ... Read moreCEO Update | 78
Psych-Appeal Files Class Action Complaint Against Health Care Service Corp. and MCG Health The firm Psych-Appeal this week filed a class-action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging that Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC)—a mutual legal reserve company and an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association— is denying ... Read moreCEO Update | 77
NABH, MHA, and NAMI Send Letter to Congress About Citizens Commission on Human Rights NABH, Mental Health America (MHA), and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) this week sent a letter to Congress about the work of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), an activist organization representing Scientology that questions the legitimacy of psychiatric ... Read moreCEO Update | 76
New Analysis Shows Opioid Crisis Cost the U.S. Economy $631 Billion Over Four Years America’s opioid crisis has cost the U.S. economy at least $631 billion from 2015 to 2018, according to a new analysis from the Society of Actuaries on non-medical opioid use. The report also projected future costs of the opioid crisis for 2019 based ... Read more
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U.S. Rep. Greg Walden
Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce
