Senate Finance Unveils Draft Bill To Integrate Mental, Physical Health

The road to integrating mental health with primary care and physical health care involves investing in mobile crisis services and surrounding community supports, the Senate Finance committee says, suggesting in a draft legislative proposal that Congress provide a two-year pay bump for Medicare behavioral health integration services and direct the CMS innovation center to consider behavioral health integration when developing new models. The Better Medicare Alliance has made similar recommendations on improving Medicare reimbursement of mental health care services in...