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Letter to Congressional Committee Leadership on Mental Health Funding
Letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee Leadership urging consideration of legislation that was passed last Congress to help prevent suicide, enable diagnosis and treatment for substance use disorders, and provide overall support patients with mental health conditions. -
Statement on Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Statement of principles on child and adolescent mental and behavioral health. -
Letter to PBM on Medication Access
Letter to Express Scripts, expressing concern regarding Express Scripts’ 2021 National Preferred Formulary Exclusion List placement of Parkinson’s and tardive dyskinesia medications. -
Statement on Mental Health Funding
Statement calling on states to take advantage of new federal funding for community-based mental health services. -
Statement on COVID-19 and Vaccinations for People with SMI
Joint statement with mental health community partners on the need for a national strategy to maximize COVID-19 vaccination for people with serious mental illness. -
Letter to CMS Director on Medicaid
Letter to CMS Acting Deputy Director Costello, requesting that CMS rescind the Interim Final Rule, 42 C.F.R. § 433.300, which weakens Medicaid beneficiary protections in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act maintenance of effort (MOE) provision. -
Letter to Congressional Committee Leadership on COVID-19 & Medicare
Letter to Congressional Committee Leadership, urging support for H.R. 8020, the “Seniors Access to Vaccines Ensured (SAVE) Act” of 2021, which would create a temporary Medicare non-emergency medical transportation benefit during the public health emergency to transport seniors to and from COVID vaccination appointments. -
New Report: “Under–Covered: How Insurance–Like Products are Leaving Patients Exposed”
This new report details the specific harms of many types of non-compliant health plans and urges federal policymakers to take immediate steps to protect people by limiting their expansion. -
Comments to FCC Secretary on 988
Regulatory comments to Federal Communications Commission Secretary Marlene Dortch, urging the FCC to implement the necessary guidance and principles to provide for the effective, standardized, and secure collection of 988 service fees. -
Criminal Justice Involvement of People with Serious Mental Illness
"It is easier to dismiss the need for change when we focus only on the individual and the criminal act, and not broader socioeconomic issues."