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Dr. Lorna Breen Act: Removing barriers to mental health care
Author(s)Richard Payerchin
J. Corey Feist, JD, MBA, discusses the latest efforts in Washington to renew the Dr. Lorna Breen Healthcare Providers Protection Act.
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When health care licensing and credentialing documents have questions that stigmatize mental health care, that discourages physicians and other clinicians from seeking care if they need it. Those need to be eliminated – and that is happening, said J. Corey Feist, JD, MBA, co-founder and CEO of the
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