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On January 5, 2021, the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) issued an All Plan Letter regarding the newly passed California Senate Bill 855 (Wiener, Stats. 2020, ch. 151 § 2) (SB 855).
1 SB 855 became effective on January 1, 2021. It amends the California Health and Safety Code and Insurance Code to expand state coverage requirements for mental health and substance use disorder services, and it requires health plans and insurers to adopt a standardized definition of “medical necessity” for those treatments.
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The All Plan Letter provides an overview of SB 855, identifies clinical criteria and guidelines that health plans
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Asian Public Mental Health Virtual Congress pertains to Psychiatry and Mental Health Disorders such as anxiety, depression, bipolar, behavioral disorders, post-traumatic, seasonal depression, persistent depressive disorder, stress and understanding the effective diagnosis & treatment to identify and help to facilitate the recovery of someone suffering from psychiatric disorders.
The conference will connect basic scientific aspects of mental health conditions with applications to clinical psychology, with key topics including addiction, human resilence, stress, depressiona and mental disorders.
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The National Library of Medicine released a study that showed the correlation between negative news and the increase in the level of cortisol which is the body’s primary stress hormone. In other words, the more negativity in a person s life, the more stress they ll feel, and the more stress a person feels, the more they emit those feelings to those around them.
Friends, family, newspapers, television, social media. Our world is drowning in ugliness and the sad reality is that the longer a person trudges through junk, the deeper they get sucked into it. If there ever was a time that our world needed to raise its collective hands out of the muck and claw for solid ground, this would be it.
Covid 19 Effects | In 93 per cent of countries worldwide, the pandemic has halted or disrupted critical mental health services as per reports by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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Pediatric congenital heart disease (CHD) patients are significantly more likely to have depression, anxiety, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than children without the condition, according to new research.
“We know from previous data that there’s a higher prevalence of these conditions in adolescents and adults with CHD, but before this, there hadn’t been any data in children,” says principal investigator Keila Lopez, MD, a pediatric cardiologist at Texas Children’s Hospital. “That struck me as odd because the earlier we can intervene, the better the outcome.”
Congenital heart disease is a catch-all term for one or more structural problems with the heart that are present since birth. Affecting about 1 percent of babies born in the United States each year, CHD is the result of the heart or blood vessels near the heart not developing properly in utero. The defects can range from mild, such as a small hole in the heart, to seve