| Welcome to the third edition of Greenberg Traurig’s Behavioral Health Law Ledger! The Ledger is for behavioral health and integrated health providers interested in staying abreast of behavioral health law legal and regulatory developments. Each quarter, we anticipate releasing a new edition of the Ledger to highlight new legal developments, including but not limited to audit risks, important litigation developments, enforcement actions, and changes to behavioral-health-related laws or regulations such as health privacy, confidentiality, and/or security issues, consent issues, data sharing allowances, and other cutting-edge arrangements and issues facing behavioral and integrated healthcare providers. New York Expands Funding for Mobile SUD Treatment Services On Feb. 25, 2022, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that the state would make available up to $1,000,000 for Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) providers to establish mobile medication units (MMUs) to provide medications such as methadone and buprenorphine, to treat substance use disorders (SUD). The MMUs will offer services including admission assessments, medication induction, medication administration and observation, toxicology tests, and other SUD-related medical services. Notably, the National Institutes of Health (amongst others) has been funding a clinical research trial in five major U.S. cities since June 2021 to evaluate the effectiveness of MMU use in treating patients who inject opioids. The goals of... |