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Developments From Healthcare, Education & Community Circles

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Insurers Prioritizing Behavioral Health

The 17th edition of the Healthcare Payer Index tracks managed care priorities and why they changed over time. While just 3 of the top 20 emerging priorities for health insurers fall squarely under the behavioral health umbrella, 17 of the 20 have some connection to behavioral health.

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5 New Behavioral Health Centers Created

Florida Blue’s behavioral health benefit manager, New Directions, acquired digital behavioral health company, Tridiuum, which has automated behavioral health screening, triaging, and matching capabilities.

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Rocky Mountain High On Fixing Youth Mental Health Gap

Colorado legislators, caregivers, patients, and community members will assemble the Behavioral Health Transformational Task Force in August to allocate the $450 million dollars dedicated to behavioral health from the American Rescue Plan Act.

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Major Cities Creating Police-Free Response Teams

NYC’s Police-Free Mental Health Response Team Is Helping People Get Treatment. The NYC pilot program, known as B-Heard, responds to nonviolent mental health calls with paramedics and mental health professionals instead of police.

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CVS Health To Add Therapists To Stores

CVS Health is adding mental health counseling to the services offered at about a dozen of its stores with HealthHUBS in Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas as a part of a pilot program that launched in January, with plans to expand to 34.

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Social Service Models Helping Address Health Disparities

In one of the largest studies about the impact of social determinants of health initiatives, 544 insurers, hospitals, physician groups and community organizations weighed in on the status of their programs, unmet needs, challenges and recent successes.

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6 Stories of Resilience, Recovery

In this fireside chat style 2-hour Q&A we tried to go behind the scenes with 5 companies interviewing 7 healthcare innovators around their novel approach to addiction and depression recovery and to changing the path for those with poor housing, food insecurity, PTSD and fall risk from isolation.

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