Author: Rylee Wilson

Embark Behavioral Health is growing its service line offerings to meet persistent demand for youth behavioral healthcare. 

Two southern California-based autism treatment providers will combine under the name Alongside. 

Value-based care in behavioral health is finally starting to catch up to other areas of healthcare, according to Stuart Lustig, MD, national medical executive for behavioral health strategy and product design at The Cigna Group. 

Fewer psychiatrists are billing Medicare, even as the overall number of psychiatrists increases, a study published in JAMA found. 

Two Topeka, Kan.-based behavioral health organizations plan to combine. 

Ochsner Lafayette General and Oceans Healthcare have started construction on a joint venture behavioral hospital. 

President Donald Trump is directing HHS to investigate potential threats posed by the prescription of psychiatric medications to children. 

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has declared fentanyl use a state of emergency in the city, a move designed to speed up the availability of behavioral health services. 

Generations Healthcare, a skilled nursing and behavioral health provider, has opened its first substance use disorder treatment facility. 

Birmingham, Ala.-based Bradford Health Services has broken ground on a 100-bed substance use treatment facility in Southhaven, Miss.