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Aurora-based Children’s Hospital Colorado is adding a pediatric mental health emergency unit and crisis stabilization services at its South Campus…
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CMS finalized its 2027 Medicare physician fee schedule Nov. 4, raising payment for psychiatric collaborative care and extending higher valuations for timed behavioral health services to tobacco cessation and substance use intervention. The behavioral health gains come as overall Medicare…
The share of U.S. adolescents with depression fell by about a quarter in three years, to 15.4% in 2024 from 20.8% in 2021, according to Mental Health America’s “State of Mental Health in America 2026” report, released Nov. 9. Adults…
A patient in a behavioral health crisis is stabilized in the emergency department and sent home with a list of phone numbers. Whether they reach anyone, and whether the health system ever finds out, is an open question. A stronger…
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Maryland ranks No. 1 overall for mental health, a measure that combines rates of mental illness and access to care, while Nevada ranks last, according to Mental Health America’s “State of Mental Health in America 2026” report. The nonprofit ranked…
New York City-based NYU Langone Health researchers have developed an AI tool that predicts which emergency department trauma patients will develop post-traumatic stress disorder based on patients’ answers to the routine intake question of what brought them to the ED,…
There were 1,626 people waiting for forensic state hospital beds at the end of fiscal year 2026, down from 1,734 in the first quarter, according to a November report from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. The forensic waitlist…
Healthcare security teams already collect signals from across their systems. The challenge is connecting thousands of alerts quickly enough to act. That urgency is growing. The average healthcare data breach costs $7.42 million, according to IBM, while attackers are using…
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Biotechnology company Compass Pathways has completed its new drug application to the FDA for COMP360, an investigational synthetic psilocybin formulation for treatment-resistant depression, the company said Nov. 9. The application rests on two phase 3 trials and a phase 2b…
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Attorney General Andy Wilson announced a public bulletin Nov. 6 warning that some products sold as dietary supplements, particularly those labeled as the herb cat’s claw, contain synthetic kratom and other illegal drugs. The Ohio…
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…
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