Ella Ruder

Companies accused of fueling the opioid crisis are paying roughly $58 billion nationwide to settle lawsuits, and oversight of how that money gets spent varies widely by state, KFF Health News reported July 21.  The money is meant to help…

Radiology Partners has named Matt Peterson president of RP Clinical Services and Krishna Nallamshetty, MD, chief operating officer of RP Clinical Services, effective July 20. Mr. Peterson will oversee strategy and execution across the organization’s national clinical services business, according to a…

Three people have sued Great Plains Hospital in Nevada, Mo., alleging they were sexually abused as children during inpatient stays at the facility, according to court records obtained by Becker’s. The three plaintiffs — identified by the pseudonyms John Doe…

Dallas, Texas-based Metrocare Services, the largest provider of mental health and developmental disability services in Dallas County, has secured authorization for an emergency loan of up to $18 million from Dallas-based Parkland Health as it projects a funding shortfall of…

Plano, Texas-based Beacon Behavioral Partners partnered with Wayne, Mich.-based Pure Psychiatry, establishing its first operations in Michigan and Ohio through the addition of a 17-location behavioral health platform. The agreement represented Beacon Behavioral Partners’ first expansion into the Midwest and…

Georgia is moving forward with plans to build its largest state psychiatric hospital in decades as officials seek to reduce a growing backlog of forensic patients waiting for court-ordered mental healthcare, according to a July 20 report from the Georgia…

Red Bank, N.J.-based PAX Health acquired Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J.-based Makraf IME, a statewide psychology and neuropsychology independent medical examination (IME) provider group operating across 17 counties. Makraf IME provides independent medical examination opinions on causality, need for treatment, maximum medical improvement,…

State governments have emerged as some of the most active funders of behavioral health expansion in 2026, committing billions of dollars to new psychiatric beds, crisis response programs and treatment infrastructure as demand continues to outpace capacity nationwide.  This round-up…

Nearly two decades after Congress passed the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, the law’s future enforcement is in flux, caught between a stalled federal rule, a wave of state-level activity and a new bill introduced in Congress that…

Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce federal funding for harm reduction initiatives, several Republican-led states have expanded support for programs aimed at reducing overdose deaths, according to a July 18 report from Politico. U.S. drug overdose deaths have fallen,…