Behavioral Health News

A Georgia behavioral health counselor will serve six months in prison and 4.5 years on probation for submitting false claims to the state's Medicaid program. 

A federal judge has approved Los Angeles County's pledge to develop 3,000 new mental health and substance use treatment beds by 2026, the Los Angeles Times reported Sept. 29.

Overall demand for behavioral healthcare has increased 20.1 percent since the first quarter of 2019, according to an analysis from Trilliant Health. 

A Minnesota psychologist has been sentenced to two years in prison for fraudulently billing Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community for over $800,000, the Star Tribune reported Sept. 28. 

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WakeBrook Behavioral Health Facility in Raleigh, N.C., is expecting a four-month delay for crisis services due to a transition in health providers, CBS affiliate WNCN reported Sept. 27.

Digital video technology platform Videra Health has partnered with Discovery Behavioral Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston to launch an AI-driven online platform addressing relapse for patients in their first year after outpatient treatment.

Appalachian Regional Healthcare has partnered with the University of Kentucky School of Social Work in Lexington to address the behavioral health workforce shortages in rural Kentucky and West Virginia.

Baxter Regional Behavioral Health Clinic in Mountain Home, Ark., will close its doors to patients Oct. 13.

A shift to value-based payments increased the number of behavioral health visits for patients with depression and bipolar disorder and reduced emergency department visits for these conditions and schizophrenia, a study published Sept. 22 in JAMA Health Forum found.