Agency · State legislature

CA SB 351: Health facilities.

NJ A 5500: Removes licensing restrictions for expansion of certain inpatient behavioral health units and establishes minimum reimbursement rate for inpatient behavioral health care services.

CO HB 1002: Provider Participation in Health Insurance

DE SB 12: AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 18 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DELAWARE PRE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2025.

NY A 11731: Relates to the handling of tips received through the office of the Medicaid inspector general's Medicaid fraud hotline

NJ S 2918: Requires prescription drug coverage for serious mental illness without prior authorization or utilization management, including step therapy.

NY S 7984: Relates to exemptions from the recipient restriction program

MA SD 4232: Mental Health Parity Summary 2024 Report

MA S 780: An Act requiring mental health parity for disability policies

CA SB 173: Health.

CA AB 173: Health.

NY A 11677: Relates to the definition of a qualified mental health professional for purposes of mobile crisis outreach teams

NY A 3789: Relates to utilization review program standards and pre-authorization for certain health care services

NY A 11673: Prohibits the termination of coverage for rehabilitation services solely because of a failure to demonstrate measurable improvement in the applicable condition

NY S 8309: Relates to outpatient mental health, substance use disorder, residential and rehabilitation services and Medicaid fee-for-service

NY S 9191: Provides limitations on overlapping control between insurance companies and pharmacy benefits managers and pharmacies

NY S 9192: Relates to health insurance and provider divestment

NY A 11730: Establishes a Medicaid fraud tip board and Medicaid fraud tip reward fund

NY A 9225: Relates to health insurance and provider divestment

NJ A 3066: Requires DHS to review, and implement certain improvements to, Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Program and to establish public-facing report card of managed care organization's coordination of program.

NY A 9099: Relates to health care payment amounts

NJ A 4265: Requires Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain primary and mental health care services match reimbursement rates under Medicare.

HI SB 956: RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

MO HB 2961: Creates provisions relating to ibogaine treatment

NY S 9388: Requires public notice and public engagement when a general hospital seeks to close entirely or a unit that provides maternity, mental health or substance use care

NY A 11665: Relates to telehealth in-home mental health service delivery

NY A 11688: Reduces inequities in access to medical procedures

MA SD 4160: Community Behavioral Health Center FY26 Report

NY A 9184: Provides limitations on overlapping control between insurance companies and pharmacy benefits managers and pharmacies

NY A 11695: Allows certain persons to practice as a mental health practitioner under supervision for a certain period of time if application and fee requirements are met

NY A 11681: Enacts the Essential Health Care Access Protection act

NJ S 2652: Expands entities that may acquire opioid antidotes; creates program within DOH and formalizes reporting requirements.

NJ S 4784: Removes licensing restrictions for expansion of certain inpatient behavioral health units and establishes minimum reimbursement rate for inpatient behavioral health care services.

NY A 1466: Provides for establishment of the New York Health plan

NJ A 5685: Prohibits health insurance carriers from assessing administrative fees or penalties on in-network health care facilities for providing inadvertent out-of-network services.

NJ S 3769: Requires NJ FamilyCare payment for multiple medical encounters per day for enrollee at federally qualified health center.

NJ A 3592: Requires NJ FamilyCare payment for multiple medical encounters per day for enrollee at federally qualified health center.

NY S 10712: Allows certain persons to practice as a mental health practitioner under supervision for a certain period of time if application and fee requirements are met

MI SB 1152: Human services: medical services; basic health program for certain low-income residents; establish. Amends 1939 PA 280 (MCL 400.1 - 400.119b) by adding secs. 112l, 112m, 112n, 112o & 112p.

MI HB 6319: Mental health: code; definition of mental health professional; expand to include physician assistants, certified nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists-certified, and allow them to perform certain examinations. Amends (See bill).

NY S 10722: Prohibits healthcare non-compete agreements and certain restrictive covenants

OH HB 214: Require Medicaid, health insurers report on prior authorization

MO HB 3098: Creates provisions relating to funding of behavioral health services

OH SCR 5: Urge Presidential support for Medicaid work requirements

IA SF 641: A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of health and human services, including administrative services organizations, child foster care, child and dependent adult abuse, internal audit and examination information, and the region incentive fund in the mental health and disability services regional service fund, health maintenance organization’s premium tax, and making appropriations and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions

NJ S 2777: Modifies process to credential licensed health care professionals in carrier provider network.*

OH HB 1004: No title provided

NJ S 4877: Requires SHBP and SEHBP commissions to use funds from 2025 False Claims Act settlement with Horizon to lower public employee health care contribution costs.

NJ A 434: Prohibits SHBP, SEHBP, and Medicaid from denying coverage for maintenance medications for chronic conditions for covered persons solely because of change in health benefits plan or pharmacy benefits manager.

NY A 2126: Establishes a pilot program on upper payment limits for prescription drugs

NY A 8884: Relates to the development and use of certain artificial intelligence systems

MI HB 4412: Mental health: hospitalization; person requiring treatment; revise, and modify certain procedures for treatment. Amends secs. 401, 427, 430, 461, 468, 472a & 475 of 1974 PA 258 (MCL 330.1401 et seq.).

NJ A 3591: Requires NJ FamilyCare reimbursement for pediatric medication management services provided for certain children by licensed pharmacist.

DC PR 26-0793: Extension of Substance Use and Targeted Outreach Grants Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2026

MN SF 3331: Providers of outpatient behavioral health services to be paid at least 143 percent of the Medicare rate requirement

CA SB 338: Virtual Health Hub for Rural Communities Pilot Program.

MN HF 1994: Payment rates established for certain substance use disorder treatment services, and vendor eligibility recodified for payments from the behavioral health fund.

FL SB 1016: Medical Assistance Eligibility for Working Persons with Disabilities

MA S 2632: An Act relative to the use of artificial intelligence and other software tools in healthcare decision-making

MA HD 5930: A communication from the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (see Section 13D ½ of Chapter 118E the General Laws) submitting a report on comparative analysis of the Community Behavioral Health Center (CBHC) rates as of December 2025