\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA bill aiming to remove barriers for mental health access in Iowa is heading to the governor’s desk.The Iowa House passed House File 2543, a proposal that expands subacute mental health care. The measure passed with a 90-0 vote.The bill relates to treatment for people who don’t require an emergency room stay but would need more than outpatient care. It would remove the current 10-day cap on care and add a real-time tracking system showing available beds. It would also set new timelines for insurance approvals. If signed, the law would take effect immediately.\u00bb Subscribe to KCCI’s YouTube page\u00bb Download the free KCCI app to get updates on the go: Apple | Google Play\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tDES MOINES, Iowa \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
A bill aiming to remove barriers for mental health access in Iowa is heading to the governor’s desk.<\/p>\n
The Iowa House passed House File 2543<\/a>, a proposal that expands subacute mental health care. The measure passed with a 90-0 vote.<\/p>\n The bill relates to treatment for people who don’t require an emergency room stay but would need more than outpatient care. It would remove the current 10-day cap on care and add a real-time tracking system showing available beds. <\/p>\n It would also set new timelines for insurance approvals. <\/p>\n If signed, the law would take effect immediately.<\/p>\n \u00bb Subscribe to KCCI’s YouTube page<\/a><\/p>\n \u00bb Download the free KCCI app to get updates on the go: Apple<\/a> | Google Play<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bill aiming to remove barriers for mental health access in Iowa is heading to the governor’s desk.The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[936,176140,16864,12579,176138,38374,73046,103,128634,61,176136,128625,60,410,411,176137,176139,1179,5217,127005],"class_list":{"0":"post-398680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-available-bed","10":"tag-desk","11":"tag-download","12":"tag-free-kcci-app","13":"tag-go","14":"tag-governor","15":"tag-health","16":"tag-house-file","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-iowa-bill","19":"tag-iowa-house","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-mental-health","22":"tag-mentalhealth","23":"tag-outpatient-care","24":"tag-real-time-tracking-system","25":"tag-treatment","26":"tag-update","27":"tag-youtube-page"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}