More than 3 million patients were affected in a data breach involving behavioral telehealth company Cerebral, according to the HHS' Office of Civil Rights.
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New York City pain specialist Howard Adelglass, MD, was sentenced to 150 months in prison for a conspiracy that saw him prescribe more than 1.3 million oxycodone pills in a three year period, the Justice Department said March 8.
Below are 10 hospitals, health systems and other organizations that recently posted job listings seeking behavioral health directors.
Phoenix-based behavioral healthcare provider Connections Health Solutions is opening a mental health crisis care center in Kirkland, Wash.
Franklin, Tenn.-based Acadia Healthcare began construction on a new behavioral health hospital in Mesa, Ariz.
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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…
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.
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.
Demand for behavioral health care has dramatically increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth is constructing a new inpatient unit at its Aurora campus, NBC affiliate KOAA reported March 6.