Becker’s Behavioral Health

Mikia Antoneice Noble, co-owner and COO of Advancing Communities Everywhere, a mental health provider in the Richmond, Va., area, was arrested Oct. 28 on federal charges alleging the company billed Virginia Medicaid more than $49 million for crisis services it…

New York will receive $10 million in federal funding over five years to expand behavioral health services in primary care settings, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Oct. 27. The state Office of Mental Health will administer the grant through…

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has given $15 million to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland to build a behavioral health wing that will include the hospital’s first dedicated inpatient psychiatric rooms. The 21,300-square-foot wing will have 20 private inpatient psychiatric rooms…

Federal health officials have proposed loosening a ban on mitragynine pseudoindoxyl, or MGPI, a potent opioid compound found in some kratom products, to allow the substance at certain levels, The New York Times reported Oct. 28. HHS Secretary Robert F.…

The Chicago-based American Medical Association and eight other physician organizations joined a legal challenge to CMS regulations that could make it harder for individuals with substance use disorders and other serious medical conditions to qualify for an exemption from Medicaid…

King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services reached a tentative agreement in August to resolve all outstanding claims in lawsuits tied to alleged sexual abuse of patients at its New Kent, Va.-based Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents, according to…

Adolescents who agreed or strongly agreed that religious beliefs were very important in their lives had lower rates of alcohol use, nicotine vaping and illicit drug use than those who disagreed or strongly disagreed with that statement, according to a…

AI is earning its keep in parts of behavioral health operations. For the care managers and social workers who meet with patients every month, it isn’t there yet, according to Corey Cronrath, DO, chief medical officer and chief technology officer…