Author: Ella Ruder

HHS, the Treasury Department and the Labor Department plan to issue new proposed rules revising requirements tied to the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, according to a March 30 filing in the U.S. District Court for the District…

Nashville, Tenn.-based Centerstone has received a $750,000 suicide prevention grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs to support veterans in the St. Louis region.  The funding will support outreach, screening and care navigation efforts aimed at connecting veterans to VA…

Health Net, a Centene subsidiary, and the Centene Foundation are investing $6 million to develop the St. Vincent Behavioral Health Campus in Los Angeles. The campus located on the former St. Vincent Medical Center site will combine behavioral health services…

Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus reported a 25% decline in clinical support calls and incidents since 2021, according to a workplace safety update published April 2. The system defines clinical support calls as requests to security for…

At Houston-based Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD, leaders are combining multiple public and partner funding streams to build a continuum of care for high-need populations while managing operational, compliance and sustainability challenges.  For decades, behavioral healthcare has faced…

Lebanon, Ind.-based Piece by Piece Autism will shut down by May 15 after Indiana officials said they would bar the provider from billing Medicaid, The Wall Street Journal reported April 1.  The state informed the company it would be cut…

Waterbury, Conn.-based Wellmore and Hartford, Conn.-based the Village for Families and Children plan to merge operations in the coming months. The combined organization would employ nearly 1,000 staff members and serve 30,000 families annually across 100 municipalities in the state,…

The Defense Department’s “Annual Report on Suicide in the Military” reported 471 service member suicide deaths in 2024, down from 531 in 2023. Here are four things to know:

As autism diagnoses climb and costs and utilization rise, many payers are tightening utilization management. Maryland Heights, Mo.-based Magellan Health’s Autism Connections — developed in 2009 amid expanding state autism coverage mandates — has taken a different route, emphasizing clinical…

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in an 8-1 decision March 31 that a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for minors may violate the First Amendment when applied to talk therapy, reversing a lower court decision and remanding the case.  Chiles…