15 Nov The Task Force Responds to the Senate Finance Committee’s RFI on Behavioral Health

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The Health Care Transformation Task Force filed comments in response to the Senate Finance Committee’s RFI on behavioral health, offering recommendations related to the five topic areas in the RFI: 1) strengthening the workforce; 2) increasing integration, coordination, and access to care; 3) ensuring parity; 4) expanding telehealth; and 5) ensuring access for children and young people. The Task Force’s comments center around three main themes:

    1. Making behavioral health care more accessible and affordable for all individuals is more critical than ever as we continue to experience the effects of the Public Health Emergency (PHE);
    2. Implementing behavioral health care equitably requires improving access to behavioral health services in underserved communities, recruiting, hiring, and training a more diverse workforce, and expanding telehealth post PHE; and
    3. Improving behavioral health care requires integration into and coordination with physical health care, which will drive better outcomes.

Read the Letter