Media Advisory: Finance Committee to Hold Hearing on Mental Health Care Parity and Care Integration

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Media Advisory: Finance Committee to Hold Hearing on Mental Health Care Parity and Care Integration

The following press release was published by the United States Senate Committee on Finance Chairman's News on March 23. It is reproduced in full below.

WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., will convene a hearing on Wednesday, March 30, titled “Behavioral Health Care When Americans Need It: Ensuring Parity and Care Integration." The hearing will take place at 10:00 a.m. in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

The witnesses at Wednesday’s hearing will be:

* John Dicken, Director, Health Care-Public Health and Private Markets Issues, US Government Accountability Office, Washington, DC

* Andy Keller, PhD, President and CEO, Linda Perryman Evans Presidential Chair Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, Dallas, TX

* Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD, Co-Director of the Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions (AIMS) Center and Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

* Reginald D. Williams II, Vice President for International Health Policy and Practice Innovations, Commonwealth Fund, Washington, DC

Who: Senate Finance Committee

What: Hearing to examine challenges in access to behavioral health care and policy solutions to get care to Americans when they need it

Where: 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20510

When: Wednesday, March 30, 2022

10:00 a.m.

Following a hearing on protecting youth mental health with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, Chairman Wyden announced a bipartisan effort to produce legislation in the summer addressing the mental health crisis.

Media are encouraged to attend the hearing or to view the webcast and witness testimony at http://finance.senate.gov/hearings.

Source: US Senate Committee on Finance Chairman's News

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