Executive Briefings | July 14, 2014
What Is Up With The Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration Project?
Recently we reported on an innovative 30-day hospital diversion program – the Safe Harbor Behavioral Health's Crisis Services Acute Needs and Diversion Service (C-SANDS) (see For Home-Based Services, The Model & The Outcomes Are Critical). The story led a reader to ask about the status of another ongoing project that also targets individuals in psychiatric crisis – the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicaid emergency psychiatric demonstration (MEPD) project. But first, what is MEPD?
The MEPD project was authorized . . .