NAMI Advocacy Actions

Regulatory comments to CMS Administrator Brooks-LaSure, providing comments on the Interim Final Rule on “Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part I.”

Letter to Senators Stabenow and Blunt, expressing support for the Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Expansion Act (S. 2069), which would allow every state & territory to join the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic demonstration & would authorize investments in the model for current and prospective CCBHCs.

Amicus Brief in Doyle v. Tidball, asking that the Court reverse the opinion of the circuit court regarding Missouri Medicaid expansion.

Letter to Senators Wyden and Crapo, expressing support for the bipartisan Medicaid Reentry Act (S.238), which would allow Medicaid to cover health services thirty days before an individual is released from prison or jail.

Letter to UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, expressing concerns from the mental health and SUD community about UnitedHealthcare’s new policy to allow for the retroactive denial of coverage for emergency care.

Statement on the Supreme Court ruling of Texas v. California, upholding the Affordable Care Act.

Letter to UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, expressing concerns about UnitedHealthcare’s new policy to allow for the retroactive denial of coverage for emergency care.

Letter to Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee leadership expressing support for the nomination of Dr. Miriam E. Delphin-Rittmon as the next Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use and Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Letter to HHS Secretary Becerra and OMB Acting Director Young urging a timely release of the report on resources necessary to make 988 operational and effective and asking that the President's budget requests in future fiscal years reflect the report's recommendations.

Letter to Congressional leadership, urging Congress to pair recent investments in broader mental health services with a directed investment to build out a national 988 crisis infrastructure of crisis call centers, mobile crisis teams and stabilization services.