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Challenges to the Biden-era parity rule, reductions to key behavioral health-focused agencies and looming Medicaid cuts are changing the game for how behavioral health providers operate.
Still, the preventative care push coming from the top is building a new race for behavioral health professionals to run, experts told Behavioral Health Business during a March VALUE event.
“Whether the funding comes or not, is going to be difficult, but it’s going to be a race to really show that value,” Peter Delia, manager of federal policy for the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, said. “If that [value is] there, I think the administration is going to want to pick up on something that can be objectively shown to provide value.”