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Today, Congress introduced a resolution declaring May 5-11, 2024 “Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week” - marking the first time Congress has officially recognized Maternal Mental Health Awareness.
A new study shows that a low-dose injection of eskatamine given after childbirth reduces major depressive episodes in those with depression during pregnancy by about 75% at 42 days postpartum. Low-dose ketamine or esketamine has previously been shown to reduce depression in mothers having a cesarean delivery but had excluded mothers with depression during pregnancy from the study.
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The new rules address “new standards to help states improve their monitoring of access to care by requiring the establishment of new standards for appointment wait times, use of secret shopper surveys, use of enrollee experience surveys, and requiring states to submit a managed care plan analysis of payments made by plans to providers for specific services, to monitor plans’ network adequacy more closely.”