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5 Hehavioral Health Trends Shaping the Economy; Biden's 2024 Budget Would Lower Medicare Behavioral Health Costs · Becker's Healthcare Behavioral Health

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  This is Randy Homan with Becker's Behavioral Health Podcast.
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  Here's your daily industry news brief for March 8th. First,
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  a new report from Trillion Health Shows Behavioral Health Visit rates were up
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  almost 20% compared to pre pandemic levels.
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  Here are five notes from the report. One,
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  anxiety and depression disorders drive much of the increase.
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  They represent 40% of all behavioral health visits in the first half of 21.
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  Two.
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  In the last four years visit rates for eating disorders grew over 50%,
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  which is the biggest increase.
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  The next biggest increases in order are anxiety, substance use disorder,
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  depression, and bipolar disorder. Three.
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  Behavioral health demands forecast that a quarter of Americans will require
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  behavioral health services in the next three years.
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  Four Americans under 18 are experiencing higher diagnosis rates of
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  select behavioral health conditions.
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  This includes an increase of over hundred percent in eating disordered
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  diagnoses among youths. Five,
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  the rate of American adults who take medication to manage behavioral health
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  issues is increasing. In 2021,
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  over 20% of Americans had a mental health related prescription.
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  Second,
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  Montana's Department of Health and Human Services releases a report that
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  details the ways it could improve its mental health crisis system.
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  The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education commissioned the report.
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  The main recommendations include raising Medicaid rates and adding more
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  reimbursable mental healthcare to encourage more areas of the state to offer
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  crisis services.
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  Montana lawmakers are currently pushing two bills that would use marijuana tax
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  dollars to pay for crisis beds and raise Medicaid rates.
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  The Health and Human Services Department is also pursuing Medicaid reimbursement
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  for mobile crisis response teams. It hopes to secure this by July.
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  The department is also involved in a federal pilot program for 24 7 mental
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  health clinics. Later this month,
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  Montana will find out if it'll receive a federal grant for its crisis program.
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  Third, president Joe Biden's,
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  proposed budget for next year with lower Medicare costs for behavioral health
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  services in the new budget.
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  Cost sharing for three mental health or behavioral health related visits per
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  year would be eliminated.
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  It would also require that Medicare covers physical and mental health equally.
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  Also included in the proposed budget is coverage and payment for new types of
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  Medicare providers. This involves peer support,
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  workers certified addiction.
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  As well as evidence-based digital applications and platforms that
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  facilitate delivery of mental health services.
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  The budget would also account for removing unnecessary limitations on
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  beneficiary access to psychiatric hospitals.
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