The Biden administration has announced that it is awarding $15 million in planning grants to help link Medicaid recipients to community-based mobile crisis intervention services, Behavioral Health Business reports.
The funding — which will be awarded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — will be granted to 20 states for the care of individuals experiencing a crisis situation. The situations, which occur outside of a hospital or health care facility, are related to mental health or substance use disorder. Read more.