The Tea ☕
The Tea on Behavioral Health
Fresh takes on enterprise behavioral health, by industry, for industry. Policy, leadership, and the people shaping the field.
Latest posts
Governing AI Before We Have to Learn the Hard Way
By Joe Hromco, PhD. What the horseless carriage teaches us about AI adoption, and the governance the field should build now.
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Medicaid Is Entering Its Defensible Documentation Era
H.R. 1 reshapes eligibility while CMS brings AI to program integrity. Together they point toward a connected, defensible record.
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Integration Is Moving Back to the Center of the Conversation
SAMHSA’s $281M across 15 programs makes integration a funding priority. The harder barrier is shared accountability, not software.
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The Spill With Paul M. Duck, Chief Strategy Officer at OPEN MINDS
OPEN MINDS’ Chief Strategy Officer on financial sustainability, HR 1, AI governance, and why preparation beats prediction.
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Value-Based Care Isn’t Creating New Payment Models. It’s Creating a New Kind of Behavioral Health Leader.
The real shift isn’t the payment model, it’s the multidisciplinary leader value-based care demands.
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The New CCBHC Grant Opportunity Signals More Than Funding
SAMHSA’s new PDI grant reflects the continued evolution of the CCBHC model, not just another funding cycle.
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$700 Million Signals Where Behavioral Health Is Headed Next
HHS’s $700M in new funding is a window into where federal behavioral health priorities are moving.
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Behavioral Health Hall of Fame: Le Ondra Clark Harvey
CEO of the California Behavioral Health Association, and one of the field’s most influential advocates.
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AERO, Minnesota, and the End of Sample-Based Oversight
Minnesota’s Medicaid crackdown hints at a future of AI-scale program integrity, not sample-based audits.
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Behavioral Health Hall of Fame: Linda Rosenberg
The woman who helped build the modern behavioral health safety net.
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Impact Award: Dr. Wes Williams
Behavioral health executive, technology leader, and psychologist who always asked how tech actually feels to use.
Read → Impact AwardThe Tea ☕Impact Award: Lance Johnson
COO of the Alaska Behavioral Health Association, reaching care into the most remote corners of the country.
Read → PolicyThe Tea ☕42 CFR Part 2 Just Changed. Here’s What SUD Programs Need to Know.
The most significant change to SUD privacy law in decades, and what leadership needs to do now.
Read → PerspectiveThe Tea ☕The Emotions of Documentation
By Joe Hromco, PhD. The nervous-system cost of writing the note right after a hard session, and what to do about it.
Read →From the archive
Earlier posts from the Clinical Notes AI blog.