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CMS Innovation Center’s Strategic Pivot: Navigating the Shift to “Make America Healthy Again”
On May 13, 2025, CMMI announced their new strategy under the “Make America Healthy Again” initiative, indicating a pivot from the previous administration’s system-level transformation approach to individual empowerment and prevention.
Event Recap: Unveiling the Mental Health Parity Index
The Kennedy Forum, Third Horizon, and the AMA unveiled the Mental Health Parity Index, a first-of-its-kind data tool designed to measure how commercial health plans meet mental health and substance use parity requirements.
IL Mental Health Parity Index Shows Real-Time Gaps in Mental Health Care
The Mental Health Parity Index – unveiled today by The Kennedy Forum, alongside strategic partners Third Horizon and the American Medical Association – sheds light on key metrics related to mental health/substance use disorder.
The Chronic Disease Paradox: When Policy Undermines Public Health Goals
This month’s focus: The impact of policy turbulence on longstanding public health efforts.
Weathering the Policy Storm: Building Provider Strength when Funding is Uncertain
The behavioral health funding landscape is shifting and funding providers have relied on is becoming increasingly inconsistent and unpredictable. This piece provides practical strategies that can help organizations build resilience.
National Council for Mental Wellbeing and Third Horizon Release Screening and Monitoring for Primary Care as a CCBHC
“Screening and Monitoring for Primary Care as a CCBHC” is a resource for CCBHCs to use in implementing high-quality outpatient primary care screening and monitoring services.