Abstract
U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D‐Conn.) and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R‐La.), members of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, have introduced the Supporting Children's Mental Health Care Access Act, which would reauthorize the Pediatric Mental Health Care Access (PMHCA) program for another five years to better promote the integration of behavioral health and primary care for children, DoingItLocal.com reported April 7. The PMHCA program supports state or regional networks of pediatric mental health care teams to provide teleconsultation, training, technical assistance and care coordination for pediatricians and other pediatric primary care providers to diagnose, treat and refer children with behavioral health conditions. The bill would also expand the types of providers that can be part of the care team and add new sites where the program can operate, such as emergency departments and schools. The PMHCA program was created in bipartisan legislation authored in 2016 by Sens. Murphy and Cassidy in the bipartisan Mental Health Reform Act in 2016, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama.
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