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House lawmakers want Medicare to fund mental health peer support services Getty Images Two House lawmakers reintroduced a bill Thursday that would allow Medicare to fund mental and behavioral health services from trained specialists with similar challenges to their patients. The Promoting Effective and Empowering Recovery in Medicare Act of 2021, introduced by Reps. Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) and Judy Chu (D-Calif.), would clarify that CMS can reimburse peer support specialists for services rendere...

Jan 14, 2021 06:41 AM EST In France, a man was saved from being deported because of his health condition, and deporting him would worsen his ailment. The man was reported to have been diagnosed with severe asthma, and his country of origin is one with terrible air quality. Sending him home would be a turn for the worse and exacerbate his breathing disability. (Photo : Patrick Hendry on Unsplash) Despite being the first case in the country to have been ruled in this manner, environmental concern...

Jan 06, 2021 08:48 PM EST A study conducted by a collaborative team of researchers under different academic institutions: the Texas A&M University, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Nanjing University, showed that the internal global temperature of the planet would inevitably rise by 2 degrees because of the greenhouse gases that we accumulated in the atmosphere for years. Using a climate model, a team of scientists and researchers simulated the effects of greenhouse gases o...

hello, i am ivette torres and welcome to another edition of the road to recovery . today we will be talking about health reform and what it means to people with substance use and mental disorders. joining us in our panel today are deb beck, president drug and alcohol service providers organization of pennsylvania; dr. richard frank, professor of health economics, department of healthcare policy, harvard medical school; patrick hendry, senior director of consumer advocacy, mental health...

hello, i am ivette torres and welcome to another edition of the road to recovery . today we will be talking about health reform and what it means to people with substance use and mental disorders. joining us in our panel today are deb beck, president drug and alcohol service providers organization of pennsylvania; dr. richard frank, professor of health economics, department of healthcare policy, harvard medical school; patrick hendry, senior director of consumer advocacy, mental health...

great job that they had done. [applause] i also want to thank the city family who is here tonight. mayor ed lee. we will hear from him in a second. members of the board of supervisors, including supervisor farrell, supervisor elsbernd, supervisor wiener, i think supervisor mar is trying to park. supervisor mirkarimi is supposed to be here. i want to thank our fire chief joanne hayes white for being here today. i want to thank our police chief. our treasurer, jose cisneros our rec and p...

with substance abuse disorders who have benefits and dont access care, but there are a significant number of individuals who cant access care because they dont have insurance benefits. and richard, what are the major ways the affordable care act will affect the behavioral health system? the affordable care act, the behavioral health aspects of the affordable care act are based on sort of three principles. one is coverage and parity, two is integration of behavioral health and health ca...

pier 50 along with other tenants and other things kept in storage. these are two significant moves. they demonstrate the level of cooperation we have always wanted to have with our tenants at the port. we need to move them in a sensitive way. they are moving to new places. i think when you talk to them and into the details of this site and. pier 50, theyre going into better sites that will allow them to grow and serve our city and visitors in great foer ways. i want to thank you for yo...

what benefits are we going to see out of it? well, ivette, we have about 50 million individuals in this country who dont have any insurance at any given point in a year. a number of them use emergency rooms and/or hospitals and that has a very significant cost for both people who have insurance, as well as employers who pay for insurance. we spend about $17.2 billion dollars on uncompensated care for those individuals. we also know that there is a significant number of people with subs...