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What changed and when: regulation, telehealth rules, licensure compacts, coverage decisions. The news that alters what a clinician can do and what a client can get.
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- Pill Peddling Doc Convicted; Digital Schizophrenia Therapeutic Cleared; AI Anxiety
FDA cleared Motivista, a prescription digital therapeutic, as an add-on treatment for negative symptoms of schizophrenia in outpatient care, per its maker.
- Transparency in Coverage
New federal rule, effective Dec 7, 2026: health plans must also give cost estimates by phone, and must change how they post their price files.
- Lamont touts CT response to Medicaid cuts, stops short of pledging funds
From Jan. 1, 2027, about 108,000 CT HUSKY D adults face work rules; people with chronic substance use disorder can qualify for a "medical frailty" exemption.
- Kratom, 7-OH laws diverge amid the spread of potent synthetic products
Kratom and 7-OH are Schedule I in CT. MA placed kratom in Schedule I for one year in August. DEA placed three related compounds in Schedule I on Aug. 26.
- The VA is Now Evaluating MDMA, GLP-1s and Psilocybin for Behavioral Health
The largest integrated health system in the country deciding what it will study is a signal the whole field reads.
- Pinnacle Treatment Centers-Owned Recovery Works Shutters State Footprint
Access shrinks by whole states at a time when an operator pulls out — the map of where care exists just changed.
- Medicaid to Stop Paying for Some Gender-Affirming Care for Youth
A coverage line moving in real time — what Medicaid pays for decides what care exists for the people who use it.