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Gov. Roy Cooper has released a three-part, $1 billion plan to address North Carolina's mental health and substance abuse crisis. 

Wave Life, a mental health platform catering to Generation Z, raised $6 million in a seed investment round led by Santé Ventures. 

Franklin, Tenn.-based Acadia Healthcare began construction on a new behavioral health hospital in Mesa, Ariz. 

Two pain clinic owners, a Tennessee physician and his wife, were each sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $50 million apiece in restitution for defrauding insurers, providing unnecessary services and illegally distributing opioids, the…

The Illinois Department of Human Services plans to relocate nearly half of the patients at Anna, Ill.-based Choate Mental Health and Development Center, ProPublica reported March 7. 

Los Angeles-based UCLA Health's Homeless Healthcare Collaborative has been awarded $25.3 million in a two-year state grant for medical and behavioral healthcare for homeless individuals, West Side Today reported March 8. 

Montana's department of health and human services released a report detailing ways the state could improve its mental health crisis system, NPR affiliate Montana Public Radio reported March 6. 

Psychiatrist Brian Hyatt, MD, chair of the Arkansas State Medical Board, resigned after the state's Medicaid inspector general found "credible allegations of fraud," the Arkansas Democrat Gazette  reported March 3. 

President Joe Biden's proposed budget for 2024 would lower Medicare costs for behavioral health services. 

Frank Fortunati, MD, vice chief and medical director of psychiatry and behavioral health at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital since 2016, died March 5 at 58 after a battle with cancer.