Mental Health Advocates Outline Possibilities For End-of-Year Package

Congress will likely include in its year-end package a House-passed bill that would reauthorize more than 30 programs to treat and prevent mental health and substance use disorders as well as a provision to ensure incarcerated youth are screened for Medicaid eligibility prior to release, sources familiar with the issue told Inside Health Policy . The end-of-year package could also include making permanent the American Rescue Plan funding for mental health crisis care teams and adding marriage and family therapists...