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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

MDPCP practices must implement "data-driven, risk-stratified care management," integrate behavioral health services, screen patients for social needs, convene a patient advisory council, and use health information technology for continuous quality improvement.

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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MBC is much more than simply administering behavioral health measures. Despite research evidence, MBC is not yet fully embraced by behavioral health professionals, including those in integrated care settings. MBC enhances therapeutic alliance and improves culturally informed care to diverse patient groups. (10,

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Governor’s 2025-26 May Revision Proposes Major Cuts to Healthcare and Undermines Medi-Cal Expansion Commitments

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

This proposal requires that a PBM must also be licensed by the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC). PBMs must also submit detailed drug pricing data to the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI). million behavioral health services fund (BHSF ), and $1.46 million total funds ($1.46

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Gun Violence

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

Disaster Behavioral Health Resources SAMHSA Disaster App – Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration The SAMHSA Disaster App makes it easy to provide quality support to survivors. Users also can share resources, like tips for helping survivors cope, and find local behavioral health services.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

At that time, I was working on the opposition because my view was it was a false choice for people until they had a full array of services, including palliative care that was really not hospice and palliative care weren’t very well known or available in the early ’90s. Is your brain hurting yet with all these questions?

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‘Not Accountable to Anyone’: As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Options

Physician's Weekly

And yet many doctors complain that insurance denials are worse than ever as the use of prior authorization has ramped up in recent years, reporting by KFF Health News and NBC News found. “There’s literally nothing we can do to get them to change,” she said in an April interview with KFF Health News. Senate report.