Uncertainty around several COVID-era regulations and unresolved legislative questions has precipitated real world-impacts on behavioral health operators, especially addiction treatment providers, reports Behavioral Health Business.
Specific questions around telehealth and the prescribing of controlled substances threaten the burgeoning crop of digital behavioral health operators that have thrived during the loosened regulations. Further, lingering questions about access to care via Medicaid hang over traditional addiction treatment providers as a potentially major threat to revenue and patient access.
Medicaid is the single largest payer for behavioral health services, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Read more.
