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This bill aims to address barriers to mental health care in Massachusetts. Key provisions include: - Requiring the state to report on behavioral health expenditures and costs - Expanding the composition and authority of the Board of Registration of Social Workers - Mandating that student health plans comply with federal mental health parity laws - Establishing a voluntary rehabilitation program for licensed healthcare professionals with substance use disorders - Requiring the Division of Insurance to enforce mental health parity laws, including conducting market conduct examinations of carriers - Obligating carriers to report annually on their management of mental health benefits - Expanding Medicaid coverage for acute, community-based, and intensive community-based mental health treatment - Creating new credentialing requirements for behavioral health providers - Directing various state agencies to study and make recommendations on improving access to culturally competent mental health services.

Budget and Finance

Senate Committee on Ways and Means (S)

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2546