Idaho’s new crisis hold statute takes effect October 1, 2024, and allows hospitals to temporarily detain “persons with a neurocognitive disorder who are in acute crisis due to an unidentified underlying medical condition [so...more
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the serious and growing mental health and substance use disorder crisis gripping children and youth in the United States. The situation is particularly serious for young people who are stuck...more
The New Jersey Legislature recently addressed a key gap in the state’s involuntary commitment law, which has historically permitted a hospital to hold a patient in need of involuntary commitment for no more than 72 hours. The...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the calendar year (CY) 2024 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System Proposed Rule (CMS-1786-P),...more
During the 2023 legislative session, the Indiana General Assembly passed HEA 1006, which combines and modifies the emergency and immediate detention processes. The changes permit police and health care providers to seek...more
North Carolina is poised to enact significant certificate of need (CON) reforms that are expected to eliminate the need to secure CON approvals for the development of new psychiatric and chemical dependency treatment...more
California recently passed legislation that allows evaluations and assessments for involuntary psychiatric holds to be conducted using telehealth technology. California’s Lanterman-Petris-Short Act authorizes the involuntary...more
Mental health patients are sometimes hospitalized under a legal hold allowing their temporary hospitalization. Medical providers seeking payments for services provided to patients subject to a legal hold argue, in both the...more
Last month, the Montana Supreme Court affirmed the district court’s involuntary commitment of a married, successful business owner in her late fifties (“Maggie”) to the Montana State Hospital because she showed evidence that...more
On March 30, 2020, CMS issued updates to its prior QSO memorandum, expanding its infection control and prevention guidance to include hospitals, critical access hospitals and psychiatric hospitals. The updated QSO memorandum...more
Unless he or she needs medical care, a patient with a mental health issue can only be involuntarily held in a hospital emergency department for 72 hours. At the end of that interval, the patient must either be admitted to a...more
Connecticut state and federal courts faced a number of significant health care issues last year. We have summarized those cases that we think are particularly relevant to Connecticut hospitals, group practices and individual...more