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News from the field

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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  1. The VA is Now Evaluating MDMA, GLP-1s and Psilocybin for Behavioral Health

    Behavioral Health Business · Aug 14, 2026

    The largest integrated health system in the country deciding what it will study is a signal the whole field reads.

  2. Pinnacle Treatment Centers-Owned Recovery Works Shutters State Footprint

    Behavioral Health Business · Aug 12, 2026

    Access shrinks by whole states at a time when an operator pulls out — the map of where care exists just changed.

  3. Medicaid to Stop Paying for Some Gender-Affirming Care for Youth

    MedPage Today — Psychiatry · Aug 12, 2026

    A coverage line moving in real time — what Medicaid pays for decides what care exists for the people who use it.