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Letter to Congressional Committee Leadership on Parity and Mental Health Funding
Letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committees requesting $15 million for the Employee Security Benefits Administration (EBSA) in the Labor-HHS appropriations bill for FY 2025 to review health plans’ parity compliance analyses. -
Letter to Congressional Committee Leadership on Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Mental Health Funding
Letter to Senate and House Appropriations Committees expressing appreciation for the inclusion of Family Resource Center (FRC) language within the Social Services Block Grant and requesting the Senate language on FRCs be included in the final Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY 2025 package. -
2023 State Legislation Issue Brief Series: Trends in State Policy: Youth Mental Health
Overview The United States is going through a well-documented and ongoing youth mental health crisis, with high rates of suicidal ideation, hopelessness and depression. In 2023, more than 1 in 5 high school students seriously considered attempting suicide and 1 in 10 attempted suicide – rates that are even higher for at risk communities, like LGBTQ+ youth. When mental health […] -
Letter to HHS and Attorney General on Crisis Services, Health Equity and Criminal Justice
Letter to HHS Secretary Becerra and Attorney General Garland seeking an immediate, coordinated federal response to the gross violations of civil rights and unethical practices described in a recent New York Times investigation of Acadia Hospital. -
Letter to CMS on Medicare
Letter to Administrator Brooks-LaSure in response to the Advanced Primary Care Management proposal and the request for information regarding Advanced Primary Care hybrid payment models, providing recommendations for strengthening the proposal to improve MH/SUD outcomes and promote behavioral health integration in primary care. -
Letter to Congressional Committee Leadership on Maternal Mental Health
Letter urging Congress to act quickly and support H.R. 8715 Newborn Essentials Support Toolkit (NEST) Act, which will codify an HHS pilot program to distribute newborn supply kits with supplies, including maternal mental health information, to new mothers and their infants. -
Statement on Parity
NAMI-led statement from leading national groups representing people with mental health and substance use disorders and the clinicians who care for them, applauding the newly released final rule to strengthen enforcement of the federal parity law that would improve access to mental health and substance use care. -
Regulatory Comment to CMS on Medicare, Maternal Mental Health, and Health Equity
Regulatory comment to CMS, requesting they expand the proposed rule on Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems to include substance use-related maternal health needs. -
Regulatory Comment to HHS on Medicaid and Medicare
Regulatory comment to CMS on the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) for CY 25 (CMS 1809-P), supporting the changes in the proposed rule on prior authorization timelines, the new statutory requirements for continuous eligibility coverage in Medicaid for children, and baseline health and safety standards for obstetrical services. -
Letter to CMS on Research and Treatment Innovation and Medicare
Letter to CMS Administrator Brooks-LaSure in support of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposal to cover digital mental health treatment in the Calendar Year 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (CY2025 PFS) proposed rule.