Behavioral Health News

CVS Health has made progress toward its goal of reducing the rate of suicide attempts among Aetna members by 20 percent by 2025, with an overall reduction of 15.7 percent and a reduction of 34.1 percent in adult members compared…

Younger physicians earned about 15 percent less than physicians overall, a report published Sept. 23 by Medscape found. 

Two changes to global mental health services are expected to grow the psychiatrist market value to more than $320 billion by 2026, a report published Sept. 23 by ReportLinker showed.

Longtime activist and philanthropist Billie Kubly invested $5 million to improve suicide prevention programs and access to behavioral health services at the Medical College of Wisonsin in Milwaukee. 

Rhode Island is using its fiscal year 2023 budget to improve the state's mental healthcare system, according to Richard Charest, director of the state's Department of Behavioral Healthcare and Developmental Disabilities & Hospitals.

The Senate Finance Committee's legislation to improve mental healthcare in the U.S. plans to increase access to Medicare funding for therapy and more, according to a draft of the legislation released by the Senate Sept. 22. 

As the stigma against sharing personal mental health challenges lessens, more steps are being taken to make suicide prevention a national priority, according to Mark Friedlander, MD, chief medical officer of Universal Health Services' behavioral health division. 

Workplace violence is a widely-discussed trend in healthcare today, and addressing it could involve adding a metric to patient medical records.

The importance of mental wellbeing is more widely recognized today than in years past.

From industry updates to acquisitions and mergers, here are developments that affected the behavioral health industry in 2022, according to a report by healthcare strategy and transaction advisory firm VGM Health.