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Author: Madeline Ashley

Premera Blue Cross was fined $550,000 on Aug. 6 by Washington State Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer over alleged violations of the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and the state’s provider directory regulation. The insurer is also required…

Lubbock-based Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has partnered with Round Rock-based Texas Organization of Rural and Community Hospitals, a nonprofit that addresses rural community hospital needs, to form a telepsychiatry initiative in emergency rooms.

Grand Junction, Colo.-based West Springs Hospital, a psychiatric facility part of Mind Springs Health, is facing possible closure due to persistent challenges like labor costs, staffing shortages, regulatory scrutiny, financial constraints, and compliance activity cost.

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