Omnibus Bill Will ‘Move the Ball Quite Substantially’ in Behavioral Health [bhbusiness.com]

Carey Sipp 1/5/2311:00 AM

By Chris Larson, Photo: Caleb Fisher/Unsplash, January 3, 2023

The $1.66 trillion omnibus funding bill touches nearly every aspect of the behavioral health industry.

Advocates in the space weren’t shy about praising the bill even though it didn’t include some long-sought reforms. A quick tally of funding for the most germane items finds that the federal government is putting at least $10 billion into behavioral health in fiscal 2023.

The bill, which was signed by Pres. Joe Biden on Dec. 29, also includes tens of millions of additional dollars allocated to initiatives such as scientific research funding through organizations within the National Institutes of Health that won’t flow directly into the industry.

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Currently my home state of Oregon put $80 million toward behavioral health, and thus far its appearing that zero dollars are going to innovate solutions, systemic change, or guidance on how to spend the money led (not advised by, but led) by the service users themselves. I'm trying my darndest to change that and it's not going well at all.

Thus I'm left both hopeful (and grateful for the hard advocacy work) and also pessimistic about such news.

I will count this as a true victory when the voices of the Experts by Experience are added to the conversation, which they mostly currently are not. And I hope PACEs Connections allies with us in that fight versus leaving us on the sidelines.

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