1/24/2022 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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2022 Children, Youth and Families Agenda The Children’s Behavioral Health Coalition (CBHC) brings together state and local advocacy groups with a focus on policy issues and concerns specific to children, youth and families with mental health and substance use needs. CBHC works to ensure children across Maryland have equitable access to high quality and culturally …
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1/17/2022 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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Happy New Year! This is the first full week of the 2022 legislative session and the Maryland General Assembly is already in full swing. Elected officials will spend the next few months hammering out Maryland’s budget and debating over 2,000 legislative proposals covering an array of issues. MHAMD will play a major role in these deliberations …
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4/13/2021 Legislative Weekly Update
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MHAMD Friends and Supporters – The 442nd legislative session of the Maryland General Assembly drew to a close last night. In an effort to mitigate spread of COVID-19, the 90-day session was conducted almost entirely virtually. Logistical challenges notwithstanding, MHAMD and the Maryland Behavioral Health Coalition rallied around a successful campaign to expand access to …
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4/5/2021 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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2021 Keep the Door Open Update This is the last full week of the 2021 legislative session! MHAMD and the Maryland Behavioral Health Coalition have been working since January to expand access to critical mental health and substance use services. After three months of work, many of our legislative priorities are either over the finish line …
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3/22/2021 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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2021 Keep the Door Open Update MHAMD and the Maryland Behavioral Health Coalition have been working tirelessly over the past few months in support of a robust and ambitious policy agenda to expand access to quality mental health and substance use services. With just three weeks left until the Maryland General Assembly adjourns on April 12, here …
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3/15/2021 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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2021 Keep the Door Open Update With just four weeks left until the Maryland General Assembly adjourns on April 12, MHAMD and the Maryland Behavioral Health Coalition are working overtime to ensure positive legislative and budgetary action to address the priority areas outlined in the Coalition’s 2021 Keep the Door Open Agenda. Public Behavioral Health System of Care In …
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3/8/2021 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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Download our complete bill list. 2021 Keep the Door Open Update Things are moving right along in Annapolis! The legislature is taking action on a variety of measures that address the priority areas outlined in the Maryland Behavioral Health Coalition’s 2021 Keep the Door Open Agenda. Public Behavioral Health System of Care In January 2020, the …
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2/22/2021 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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Download our full bill list. MHAMD Legislative Briefing Today’s the day! We look forward to welcoming you this afternoon for the MHAMD 2021 Virtual Legislative Briefing. Thank you to the hundreds of Marylanders who have registered to attend. If you haven’t already, you have until noon to register. We are very excited to host this event. Attendees will hear directly …
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2/15/2021 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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Download our complete bill list. MHAMD Legislative Briefing The 2021 Legislative Briefing is a week from today! If you haven’t already, please register and join us on Monday, February 22. The event this year is entirely virtual and free to all. Attendees will hear directly from legislators and policymakers about important behavioral health bills and initiatives covering a …
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2/8/2021 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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Download our complete bill list here. 2021 Keep the Door Open Update School Behavioral Health Last year MHAMD and the Maryland Behavioral Health Coalition supported legislation implementing a range of public education reforms recommended by the Kirwan Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education. Those reforms included a comprehensive set of strategies for enhancing school-based behavioral …
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2/1/2021 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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Download our bill list. Happy February! Things are moving along steadily in Annapolis. The workload is increasing weekly and the MHAMD public policy team is gearing up for a busy month. 2021 Keep the Door Open Update Legislators will consider several bills this week addressing two main focus areas for the Maryland Behavioral Health Coalition. Health Equity …
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1/25/2021 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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2021 Keep the Door Open Update It’s a busy week in Annapolis. Legislators will consider a number of bills that address priority areas outlined in the Maryland Behavioral Health Coalition’s 2021 Keep the Door Open Agenda. Telehealth Maryland has worked for years to address twin challenges – a growing demand for mental health and substance use …
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1/18/2021 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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This is the first full week of the 2021 Maryland General Assembly session and the legislature is already in full swing. In an effort to mitigate spread of the coronavirus, lawmakers are not meeting for full floor sessions. Instead, they are using their time to focus on bill hearings and committee work. Download MHAMD’s complete …
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1/11/2021 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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It’s a new year and the Maryland General Assembly is set to convene for the 442nd time this Wednesday, January 13 at noon. This session will look and feel a lot different than usual – most of the proceedings will be conducted virtually – but the resulting policy and budgetary actions will impact Marylanders just the same. …
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2020 Milliman Press Release
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Groundbreaking New Study Reveals People Diagnosed with Both Behavioral and Physical Health Conditions are Among the Highest-Cost Patients, Yet Less than 5% of Health Care Spending is Directed Toward Behavioral Health Treatment Report Comes Amidst Upsurge in Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders During COVID-19 Pandemic ANNAPOLIS, MD – Individuals with behavioral health conditions (mental …
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3/19/2020 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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MHAMD Friends and Supporters – Amid concerns over spread of the novel coronavirus, the 441st legislative session of the Maryland General Assembly ended at 5PM yesterday – nearly three weeks earlier than planned. It is believed to be the first time the session has been cut short since the Civil War. While the last few days …
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3/9/2020 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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With just over four weeks left until the Maryland General Assembly adjourns at midnight on April 6, MHAMD and the Maryland Behavioral Health Coalition are working overtime to ensure positive legislative and budgetary action to address the priorities outlined in the 2020 Keep the Door Open Agenda. Time is short, but we’ve got momentum on our side! …
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3/2/2020 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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What a week! Thank you to everyone who came out for the Maryland Behavioral Health Coalition’s 2020 Keep the Door Open Rally. Hundreds of you flooded Annapolis to demand a restoration of nearly $25 million in budget cuts to community mental health and substance use treatment, the appropriate enforcement of federal and state parity laws, and the rest of the Coalition’s 2020 Legislative Agenda. Thank …
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2/24/2020 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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This is a big week! The Maryland Behavioral Health Coalition will rally in Annapolis, several Coalition priorities are scheduled for committee hearings, and a number of other key policy measures will receive legislative consideration. Keep the Door Open Rally in Annapolis Thursday, February 27 at Noon The Behavioral Health Coalition’s 2020 Legislative Agenda will be front and center this Thursday …
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2/17/2020 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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It’s a busy week for MHAMD and the Maryland Behavioral Health Coalition! Bill hearings are scheduled for many of the Coalition’s Keep the Door Open 2020 priorities and the General Assembly will get it’s first look at the FY 2021 Behavioral Health Administration budget. Here are some of the priority bill hearings we’re focused on this week and an ACTION ALERT you can complete …
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2/10/2020 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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Keep the Door Open 2020 An inability to access quality mental health and substance use disorder services in the community is forcing more individuals into costly emergency departments or discouraging them from seeking care at all. Accordingly, MHAMD and the Maryland Behavioral Health Coalition have prioritized legislation that will expand access to crisis response services …
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2/3/2020 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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Keep the Door Open 2020 Given a recent national report documenting widening disparities in access to in-network behavioral health services, MHAMD and the Maryland Behavioral Health Coalition are once again calling on Maryland legislators to take action that will guarantee consumer payment protections for out-of-network care and ensure the appropriate enforcement of federal and state parity laws. A new …
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1/27/2020 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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2020 MHAMD Bill List 2020 Legislative Briefing and Reception This is the week! The MHAMD 2020 Legislative Briefing and Reception is this Thursday, January 30 at the Graduate Annapolis Hotel. In addition to our keynote and panel discussion focused on addressing the behavioral health needs of children with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), we will hear directly from policymakers about a range of …
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1/20/2020 MHAMD Weekly Legislative Update
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2020 MHAMD Bill List 1/17/2020 Behavioral Health FY21 Budget ALERT In recent years, thanks to an outpouring of support from people across the state, MHAMD and its partners on the Behavioral Health Coalition have been successful in securing long-overdue multiyear funding increases for community mental health and substance use treatment. Unfortunately, the Fiscal Year 2021 budget submitted to …
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