Author: Rylee Wilson

A Connecticut psychologist pleaded guilty to $1.6 million in Medicaid fraud. 

Several Optum-owned eating disorder clinics are set to close. 

Around 13% of mental health specialists have shifted their work fully online since 2019, a study published Jan. 26 in JAMA Health Forum found. 

When it comes to behavioral health, health systems should be looking at opportunities to collaborate, not compete, with their peers. 

In Wyoming, the state with the highest suicide rate per capita, experts are pushing for safer storage of firearms as part of prevention, NPR reported Jan. 23. 

HHS is providing $50 million in funding to states to provide school-based medical services. 

A patient at Dover (Delaware) Behavioral Health was charged with attempted murder after allegedly assaulting another patient at the facility, NBC affiliate WRDE reported Jan. 22. 

Hartford-based Connecticut Children's is opening a 12-unit medical-psychiatric unit at its main campus, The Hartford Business Journal reported Jan. 22. 

Workplace wellness offerings aren't improving employees' mental health, a study published Jan. 10 in the Industrial Wellness Journal found. 

Minneapolis-based Meridian Behavioral Health, which provides substance use disorder treatment services, has named Lewis Zeidner, PhD, its new CEO.