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Long‐delayed mental health reform bill passes unanimously out of committee
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30141
Subject(s) - legislation , mental health , health insurance portability and accountability act , accountability , software portability , house of representatives , work (physics) , health insurance , mental health act , public administration , political science , business , law , medicine , psychiatry , health care , politics , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , programming language
Noting that much more work still lies ahead, House Energy and Commerce Committee members, by a unanimous vote of 53–0 on June 15, have finally advanced mental health reform legislation that eliminates many prior controversial provisions, including those involving the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) exclusion.