[ICYMI] Celebrating World Mental Health Day

World Mental Health Day has become the corporate holiday of empathy. You get your hashtags, your pastel infographics, and your yearly reminder that we “need to talk about it.”

Then the calendar flips, the campaigns end, and the system that broke people in the first place keeps humming along like nothing happened.

Matt Toresco is perfectly on brand with his no BS candor in this piece Awareness doesn’t rebuild a system built on isolation. You can’t awareness your way out of a billing code. Every patient knows the emptiness of those words: “Call your provider if symptoms worsen.” They never ask what the symptoms are doing to your mind.

The infrastructure already exists. It’s called care navigation. It works. It saves money. It prevents breakdowns. It gives patients an actual human tether when the system chews them up. But nobody pays for it. Why? Because the system doesn’t move without reimbursement. Hospitals don’t think, they bill.

Medicare finally woke up and created a code for patient navigation this year. Progress, sure. But it’s a pilot program in a house fire. Until care navigation becomes standard and billable for every condition, “awareness” remains a ribbon without oxygen.

If this hits home, toss it a like, a repost, comment, or tag someone you may be ambivalent about. One click makes a bigger difference than you think.

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SOURCE ➡️ https://archo-advocate-brief.beehiiv.com/p/mental-health-awareness-changed-nothing-for-me