A new approach to mental health; Health department will pay providers for indirect services
Posted on AllSides May 1st, 2023
From The Center
CASPER — Wyoming’s mental and behavioral health system was in need of a remake. Mental health providers saw it. Lawmakers saw it. Stefan Johansson, who would soon be appointed to lead the Wyoming Department of Health, saw it. People were slipping through the cracks. Actually, they were falling. They were ending up in prisons, in hospitals, on waitlists for mental health facilities. The problem lawmakers and the state identified was this: “When everyone is a priority, no one is a priority.” A general access model for mental and behavioral health,...