{"id":22659,"date":"2024-04-03T08:10:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T12:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22659"},"modified":"2024-04-03T08:16:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T12:16:59","slug":"mental-health-care-is-hard-to-find-especially-for-people-with-medicare-or-medicaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22659","title":{"rendered":"Mental health care is hard to find, especially for people with Medicare or Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Rhitu Chatterjee for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With rates of suicide and opioid deaths rising in the past decade and children&#8217;s mental health declared a national emergency, the United States faces an unprecedented mental health crisis. But access to mental health care for a significant portion of Americans \u2014 including some of the most vulnerable populations \u2014 is extremely limited, according to a new government report released Wednesday.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2024\/04\/03\/1242383051\/mental-health-care-shortage-medicare-medicaid-hhs-inspector-general\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2024\/04\/03\/1242383051\/mental-health-care-shortage-medicare-medicaid-hhs-inspector-general\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rhitu Chatterjee for NPR) With rates of suicide and opioid deaths rising in the past decade and children&#8217;s mental<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,53,16,6,9,48],"tags":[228,80,238,67,61,62,91],"class_list":["post-22659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-hhs","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-mental-healthbehavioral-health","tag-behavioral-health","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22660,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22659\/revisions\/22660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}