Southeastern Behavioral Healthcare Services, based in Lumberton and Maxton, N.C., and its owners, Bertha and Virgil Hutchinson, have agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle civil allegations that they fraudulently billed North Carolina Medicaid for services that were never provided.
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ABA Centers of America plans to double its patient base next year.
A total of 23 hospitals will receive Medicare-supported psychiatric residency slots.
Headspace has laid off around 13% of its employees, a spokesperson told Becker's.
The strike by Kaiser Permanente mental health workers has entered its fifth week, with the union filing a complaint with the California Department of Public Health regarding alleged patient care violations caused by understaffing, KPBS reported Nov. 19.
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Behavioral health urgent care clinics are growing in popularity in the last five years as a way to provide mental health care outside of EDs.
Health systems are closing small behavioral health units, and a major telehealth provider is shifting back to brick-and-mortar clinics.
Health systems and behavioral health organizations are opening new outpatient mental health clinics, crisis centers and inpatient units.
Neuropsychiatric symptoms are a pervasive and challenging aspect of Alzheimer's disease (AD), affecting up to 90% of individuals over the course of the illness.
UnitedHealth Group uses an algorithm that has been subject to legal scrutiny to manage behavioral health costs, ProPublica reported Nov. 19.