Rational Approach To Fixing IMD Exclusion That Limits Beds For #SeriouslyMentallyIll by Pete Earley @ bit.ly/3WCfUkp suggests how Congress can get it right this time: create different bed limitations for different kinds of facilities. Totally agree! #smi #imdexclusion
National Association for Behavioral Healthcare @TreatmentAdvCtr Mental Health America Our loved ones are ending up on the streets, in jail, or worse. NSSC's supports the #IMDexclusion #ABedInstead #repealtheIMDExclusion #SteppingUp4SMI #TreatmentInsteadOfJail
#Anosognosia #IMDEXCLUSION
THE IMD EXCLUSION denies the long term treatment so desperately needed, for our most Seriously ill, between the ages of 23 to 64. Conveniently horrific.
Had a great time and met some wonderful people in Spokane. I also learned a great deal about their local and regional efforts to help people experiencing homelessness before delivering the keynote and what will likely be my last talk on #IMDexclusion for the foreseeable future.
Why? Only 38K psych beds, 120K short, #IMDExclusion disincentivizes construction & allows discrimination against #SMI to echo from highest echelons of our government, setting unacceptable tone in this country for blatant disregard of fellow human beings. #treatmentbeforetragedy
For all of our talk about social justice, how are we so blind to the Federally sanctioned discrimination against the seriously mentally ill in the IMD Exclusion?
What is the #IMDExclusion , you ask? 1/
Director of Advocacy Michael Gray is in New York City today speaking at a press conference with Rep. Dan Goldman, who will be announcing legislation to repeal the discriminatory #IMDExclusion .
.Dr. Elinore F. McCance-Katz highlights new 1115 waivers to eliminate #IMDexclusion to standing room only crowd! Says they’re key part of building continuum of care.
Repeal the #IMDExclusion . California has tragically come full circle on mental illness treatment - CalMatters calmatters.org/commentary/202…
Bernie: Three Changes Are Urgent to Your Good Plan for Mental Healthcare Reform noonecaresaboutcrazypeople.com/2020/02/14/ber… #mentalhealthcare #IMDexclusion #HIPAA #mentalillness
It’s a step in the right direction. Come on everyone… Let’s drive this baby home. Next let’s end #IMDexclusion
Bill Cassidy, M.D. thanks for hosting today’s LA Mental Health Summit! Hope 2 see more $ 4 #AOT Programs soon! Also hope 2 see Federal repeal of the #IMDExclusion and #HIPAA reform 2 help LA provide continuity of care 4 our seriously mentally ill loved ones. #NextSteps ? A State ISMICC
In #PriceHearing Portman asks Price about the #IMDExclusion . Price responds: 'That’s a rule that needs to be looked at.” #Medicaid
🚨 California action alert 🚨
The #IMDExclusion is discriminatory, but making counties across the state opt into the waiver falls short of fixing the problem. Urge the California Department of Health Care Services to make the waiver statewide: bit.ly/3HW28W5
For non-elderly adults, the national #IMDexclusion prevents #Medicaid from paying for #inpatient care in institutions with more than 16 beds that primarily provide care for persons with “mental diseases” other than dementia or intellectual disabilities. ow.ly/jJ6h30logYP
As we have long maintained, the #IMDExclusion is federally-sanctioned discrimination against people with #mentalillness . Congress must repeal it.