Meadows Behavioral Healthcare is opening a residential mental health treatment facility for adolescents in Morristown, Ariz.
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Universal Health Services added 391 beds to new and existing behavioral health facilities in 2022, according to the UHS annual report.
CVS Health now offers mental health counseling and care services at six of its locations in the Los Angeles area and debuted virtual care services to all California residents.
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention launched a virtual, anonymous screening program to assess healthcare workers who may be at risk of suicide and connect them to professional mental health support.
Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, is seeking to improve access and cost of care for those seeking behavioral health services in multiple ways.
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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.
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.
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.
Orlando, Fla., psychiatrist Iftikhar Rasul, MD, founder and medical director of Serene Behavioral Health, was restricted from seeing female patients six months after being arrested for allegedly touching a patient inappropriately, the third such allegation against him, the Miami Herald…
Behavioral health is undergoing a broad awakening, with both leaders and the public increasingly seeing it as vital. The industry may fail to capture the full momentum of those tailwinds, however, if certain obstacles are not addressed.