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Barriers and Opportunities for Improving Interstate Licensure Portability for Behavioral Health Practitioners: Technical Expert Panel Findings Issue Brief

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Monica Rousseau, Kathryn Rourke Batts, Lissette Saavedra, Arnie Aldridge, Laura Jacobus-Kantor

In October 2022, ASPE convened a virtual technical expert panel (TEP) to discuss policy options that encourage interstate licensure among behavioral health providers. The goals of the TEP were to: (1) establish a foundational understanding of the existing barriers to adopting and participating in interstate licensure portability compacts and reciprocity agreements among behavioral health practitioners, professional organizations, state licensing boards, and legislators; and (2) identify federal actions that could help overcome these challenges and foster both in-person and tele-behavioral health licensure portability. Panelists also provided input on the advantages and disadvantages of multidisciplinary versus single discipline compacts, as well as the merits and limitations of national versus regional compacts.

This research was conducted under contract between HHS/ASPE’s Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy (BHDAP) and Research Triangle Institute. Additional research in this area is available at the ASPE Behavioral Health page.

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