Expand Medicaid and CHIP guidance for behavioral health workforce development

Thompson supports the Expand the Behavioral Health Workforce Now Act. It would direct the Department of Health and Human Services to issue guidance to states on increasing education, training, recruitment, and retention of mental health and substance use disorder care providers through Medicaid and CHIP, with specific attention to rural and underserved areas.

Context: The response says he supports the bill but does not say he introduced it.

In their own words

legislation that will direct HHS to issue new guidance for states on ways to increase education, training, recruitment, and retention of mental health and substance use disorder care providers under Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), specifically in rural and underserved areas.

The source

Glenn Thompson: 2026 healthcare questionnaire

Published: 11/2/2026
Retrieved: 11/11/2026