A Miami Lakes, Fla. psychiatrist was sentenced to 54 months in prison for unlawfully billing about $112 million in addiction treatment services that were never completed and/or medically unnecessary, according to the U.S. Justice Department..
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Eight of the nation's leading physician organizations published an "urgent" plea for a unified and collective effort by stakeholders across the healthcare system to support integration of mental health services, Health Affairs reported July 6.
CVS subsidiary Aetna has expanded its behavioral health programs with the mental health education platform Psych Hub.
A proposal to combat the behavioral health crisis exacerbated by the pandemic was announced by CMS this year.
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After an eight-year stretch that saw New York close 32 percent of its youth capacity in state psychiatric hospitals, children across the state are finding themselves with nowhere to go for mental health treatment.
John Constantino, MD, is stepping into the newly-minted role of behavioral and mental health chief at the Children's Hospital of Atlanta, effective August 1, according to a news release shared with Becker's.
University of California San Francisco has opened the Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building, a "one-of-a-kind" treatment center designed to reinvent mental health services and tackle the stigma around psychiatric treatment, local news source KRON 4 reported June 27.
National behavioral health service provider Acadia Healthcare and Massachusetts-based Tufts Medicine formed a joint venture to build what Acadia CEO calls a "critically needed" behavioral health hospital in the Boston area.
One year after the inauguration of the Link in Sioux Falls, S.D., in June 2021, the mental health and addiction treatment facility had 4,001 triage visits and served more than 1,400 patients, local news source the Argus Leader reported June…