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Behavioral health care now consumes 40% of all pediatric medical spending—nearly double the 22% recorded in 2011. Kenneth Michelson, MD, MPH, emergency medicine physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, explains that without regulatory reforms and better reimbursement rates, untreated children will continue flooding emergency departments in crisis.