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A former Tennessee mental health counseling center owner was sentenced Oct. 13 to three years of probation and ordered to pay $1,048,840 in restitution for failing to pay employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, the Justice Department said. Mari…
Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth secured certificate-of-need approval from the Oregon Health Authority for its proposed 89-bed psychiatric hospital in Springfield, Ore. The project, known as Timber Springs Behavioral Health Hospital, now hinges on an annexation request pending before the Springfield City…
Behavioral health needs continue to rise, yet many individuals face challenges finding the right care at the right time. Join Becker’s Healthcare and Cigna Healthcare for a discussion on innovative strategies to improve access, engagement, and outcomes through personalized provider…
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- Stuart L. Lustig, MD, MPH, National Medical Executive for Behavioral Health Strategy and Product Design, Cigna Healthcare
- Lisa Kay, Clinical Quality Leader, Evernorth Health Services
- Anil Sipahimalani, MD, LFAPA, Lead Behavioral Medical Director, Enhanced Clinical Model, Cigna Healthcare
- Jason Youngblood, Senior Director – Cigna US Markets Behavioral Center of Excellence and Sales Operations, Cigna Healthcare
From a 292-bed state-funded psychiatric hospital in Texas to New Mexico’s only children’s emergency psychiatric unit, hospitals and health systems are expanding behavioral health access as demand continues to grow, representing more than $730 million in investment. Here are 60…
Three health systems have each put nine figures behind behavioral health, and two of them already have results to show for it. The spending stretches across the full continuum of care: new inpatient beds, dedicated psychiatric emergency space, outpatient follow-up…
Every week, Detroit-based Henry Ford Health’s behavioral health service was seeing 500 to 600 referrals from patients arriving in primary care. Deepak Prabhakar, MD, wanted to make sure those referrals end with the right care, not just an appointment. The…
For most health plans, social risk lives inside care management, disconnected from strategy and the balance sheet. The result is avoidable utilization no one has quantified and spending no one has traced to a cause. As medical costs climb and…
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- April Richardson, MD, VP Clinical Services, BCBS South Carolina
- Trenor Williams, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Socially Determined
- James Beem, Senior Partner, Mathematica
- David Wolf, SVP, Commercial Product, MedeAnalytics
From large health systems to community-based centers, behavioral health providers are facing adversity with pending regulatory actions, looming funding changes and cuts to already tight reimbursement rates, leading to the closure of facilities and potential disruptions of care. Here are…
The Georgia Poison Center has received 315 calls involving kratom-like products, including synthetic kratom, and reported four related deaths in 2026, according to an Oct. 14 report from WSB-TV. Eight out of every 10 calls involve the hospitalization of an…
Monroe, Wash.-based EvergreenHealth Monroe has closed the Recovery Center at EvergreenHealth Monroe’s physical facility and ended its detox and residential treatment programs due to a significant plumbing issue. The hospital has not specified when the closure took effect or whether…
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