May 19, 2022
May is National Mental Health Awareness Month
This month we’re raising awareness about the importance of mental health in the lives of all Americans. We launched a NEW CMS Behavioral Health Strategy that strives to support a person’s emotional and mental well-being and promotes person-centered behavioral health care. The strategy focuses on:
- Accessing prevention and treatment services for substance use disorders, mental health services, crisis intervention, and pain care
- Enabling care that is well-coordinated and integrated
- Removing barriers to care and services
- Using data to evaluate our behavioral health programs and policies
Medicare covers certain screenings, services, and programs that aid in the treatment and recovery of mental health and substance use disorders. Download Medicare and Your Mental Health Benefits and other key resources:
NTP Webinars: Save the Dates
- NTP Update & Education Webinar: June 9, 2022 from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET
- NTP Understanding Medicare 2-day Webinar: June 14 and 15, 2022 from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET
NTP Training Materials
- Coordination of Benefits (COB)
- Medicare & Medicaid Fraud, Waste & Abuse
- Medicare for People with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)
- Medicare Rights & Protections
- For a full list of the CMS National Training Program’s training materials, including other PowerPoint modules that can be customized for your audience, go to CMSnationaltrainingprogram.cms.gov/resources.
NTP Webinar Recordings
May Update & Education Webinar (Recorded May 12, 2022)
This recording explains Medicare updates and information about National Mental Health Month, Older Americans’ Month, National Osteoporosis Prevention Month, World No Tobacco Day (5/31), and Women’s Health Week (5/8–5/14). We also had a presentation about the CMS Behavioral Health Strategy.
To view all our past webinar recordings, please visit the NTP website.
New/Updated CMS Products
Visit Medicare.gov/publications to view:
- Medicare & Hospice Benefits: Getting Started (Medicare Product No. 11361)
- Your Right to Get Information About Returning to the Community (Medicare Product No. 11477)
Did You Know?
- Social Security mails the LIS & MSP Outreach Notice in May.
- May is National Osteoporosis Prevention Month.
- May is Older Americans Month (OAM) and will focus on aging in place—how older adults can plan to stay in their homes and live independently in their communities for as long as possible.
- CMS Issues New Policies to Provide Greater Transparency for Medicare Advantage and Part D Plans
- CMS is issued a final rule that advances CMS’ strategic vision of expanding access to affordable health care and improving health equity in Medicare Advantage and Medicare drug coverage through lower out-of-pocket prescription drug costs and improved consumer protections.
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