Author: Rylee Wilson

Healthcare analysts and CEOs are turning attention to behavioral health for investments in 2024, the Nashville Business Journal reported Feb. 9. 

HHS is introducing new flexibilities designed to make telehealth treatment for opioid use disorder easier to access and adding new rules aimed at improving confidentiality. 

HHS will implement new rules designed to improve confidentiality for patients receiving treatment for substance use disorder and integrate records for these treatments with standard medical records. 

New York City-based Montefiore Health System is using new funding from the state to fill gaps in behavioral care in the community. 

With the gap between supply and demand for mental healthcare expected to widen in the next decade, health systems are ramping up efforts to increase the number of mental health clinicians. 

A Chicago psychiatrist was found guilty of more than $1.2 million in Medicaid fraud, the Wednesday Journal reported Feb. 6. 

A California county is the first in the U.S. to declare loneliness a public health emergency, NBC News reported Feb. 2. 

Evernorth, the Cigna Group's health services arm, is planning on advancing its behavioral health capabilities. 

Patients can chat with an AI avatar designed to simulate a human therapist on a new application developed by Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai. 

HHS will make permanent the flexibility for prescribing buprenorphine through telehealth implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic.