Gary A. Enos

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A second ‘ghost network’ challenge is filed in federal court in New York

6 days ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Gary A. Enos

Saying the mental health benefits manager for a New York government employee health plan deceptively issued an inaccurate provider directory in order to boost profits, attorneys for three plaintiffs have sued the company in federal court. The lawsuit against Carelon Behavioral Health is the second federal legal challenge to the practice of publishing mental health “ghost networks” in the past six months.
Recovery‐focused groups feeling especially exposed to cost‐cutting

6 days ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Gary A. Enos

Mass uncertainty about the extent of threatened government cuts to human-services programs has placed organizations that are at the forefront of the recovery movement in what one national advocate calls a “freeze.” Feeling unable to count on the sustainability of their main funding sources at the federal or state level, many recovery support organizations are already pulling back programs and dismissing staff even before budget decisions have been finalized, though many have not yet gone...
Newly awarded grants target peers, paraprofessionals to grow workforce

1 week ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Gary A. Enos

Two new recipients of grant support from the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) will be tackling separate but equally compelling subsets of the substance use disorder treatment workforce. The national homeless services provider HELP USA Inc.
Ohio moves to implement youth crisis service statewide

2 weeks ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Gary A. Enos

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Medicaid work mandate back on table despite scant evidence in support

2 weeks ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Gary A. Enos

Fueled in part by a receptive administration in Washington, some states are again pursuing an effort to enact work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries, despite strong evidence that these mandates do little to increase employment while exacerbating some clients' mental health and other struggles.
Feds send signal that merging NIDA, NIAAA could be on table again

2 weeks ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Gary A. Enos

A proposal to consolidate the two substance use-focused institutes under the National Institutes of Health (NIH), abandoned amid controversy more than a decade ago, could be reintroduced as part of major cost-cutting moves in the Trump administration. This time, the restructuring also could include NIH's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the same consolidated entity with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).
Field tries to assess damage from cuts to research agenda

3 weeks ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Gary A. Enos

Amid reports of hundreds of canceled research grants at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and threats to the entire medical research program at major universities, leaders in the substance use research and advocacy communities have been left to wonder how deeply any changes to the national research agenda will ultimately affect addiction treatment and prevention.
CMS says it will halt funding targeting social determinants

3 weeks ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Gary A. Enos

The Trump administration is putting the brakes on states' practice of using federal matching funds under Medicaid to address beneficiaries' health-related social needs, an effort that had gained substantial momentum under the Biden administration.
Supreme Court upholds FDA denial of plan to market flavored vapes

1 month ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Gary A. Enos

The U.S. Supreme Court this month unanimously overturned an appellate court ruling that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had acted improperly in denying two companies' applications to market flavored vaping products. The Supreme Court's decision could prove to have greater relevance to the health care regulatory process during the current administration than to the e-cigarette market.
Report: Mental health support largely absent in Medicaid HCBS programming

1 month ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Gary A. Enos

States are largely missing an opportunity to improve outcomes for older adults with mental health needs through use of home- and community-based services (HCBS) under Medicaid, a newly released report suggests. The report's co-authors found that only an estimated 2% of older adults with serious mental illness (SMI) who are covered by Medicaid receive HCBS services specific to their mental illness.