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This guide equips advocates and changemakers with key information about pharmacy services, including an overview of the system’s inequities, and highlights the policy and accountability levers that can advance equity.

This guide equips advocates with key information about the Veterans Health Administration, including an overview of the system’s inequities, and highlights the policy and accountability levers that can advance equity.

The guide discusses existing behavioral healthcare services in the United States and highlights barriers to care, stigma, and discrimination that exist. It also notes the overdose epidemic and services in place to combat it.

This article reviews medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) treatments in the United States from data pulled from the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

The document reviews CMS's behavioral health priorities. Highlights include expanding telehealth access, promoting school-based services, contingency management programs, the making care primary (MCP) care model for rural communities

This issue brief discusses health inequities and disparities experienced by people in LGBTQ+ communities enrolled in Medicaid. It outlines considerations for shaping Medicaid policies to combat these inequities and improve health outcomes for this population.

This bulletin encourages states to to consider leveraging available Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) opportunities to improve access to mental health (MH) and substance use disorder (SUD) services for individuals experiencing homelessness.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) published guidance to states and communities on using federal funding to support mental health services for LGBTQI+ youth.

This tool presents decision points for states interested in developing an approach to addressing health-related social needs (HRSN), including by using "in lew of services" (ILOS), among other policy levers.

This new Medicaid policy cheat sheet explores five key takeaways from CMS’ May 2024 final rule, which build on the agency’s prior guidance on using "in lew of services" (ILOS) to address health-related social needs (HRSN).