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Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, is seeking to improve access and cost of care for those seeking behavioral health services in multiple ways. 

Páll Matthíasson, MD, PhD, leader of Iceland's mental health strategy and a psychiatrist at The National University Hospital of Iceland in Reykjavík, joined Becker's to share his behavioral health priorities, forecasts for the industry of mental healthcare worldwide and more. 

CVS Health's Accountable Care Organization and Long Island, N.Y.-based Catholic Health have partnered to expand value-based care access for Medicare beneficiaries within the group's physician network.

Fifty-nine percent of adults in the U.S. said the past 12 months have been the most stressful of their entire lives, and 55 percent said they feel unable to enjoy life because of it, according to Clever's "State of Stress…

Behavioral health is seeing a mixture of headwinds and tailwinds, with both leaders and the public increasingly seeing it as vital, while structural issues like payment and reimbursement parity, and provider deficits, present as major obstacles.

Nearly one-third of the U.S. population lives in an area that reserves taxes for mental health services, according to a study published April 18 in The Milbank Quarterly.

Gregory Bledsoe, MD, has joined Kindly Human, a peer counseling platform for behavioral health support, as a strategic advisor.

The National Emergency Services Information System has released a report showing the national nonfatal opioid overdose rates from data collected between March 2022 and March 2023. 

K-Assist, a Hamden, Conn.-based behavioral health provider, is required to pay over $243,000 to resolve allegations that it violated federal and state False Claims Acts, the Justice Department reported April 18. 

The National Emergency Services Information System has released a report showing the national nonfatal opioid overdose rates from data collected between March 2022 and March 2023.