Capital Blue Cross took steps to broaden behavioral health access in recent years, contributing to a 9% reduction in related emergency department visits. Now, the insurer is looking to deploy similar strategies beyond behavioral health. In an upcoming episode of…
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King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services has moved to expand its behavioral health continuum, including its acquisition of virtual therapy and psychiatry platform Talkspace. Marc Miller, president and CEO of UHS, told Becker’s about what is driving the surge…
From Medicaid provisions under H.R. 1 to funding streams for models that remain uncertain, behavioral health leaders are trying to build for the future while the ground keeps shifting under them in 2026. Becker’s asked 11 health system and payer…
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health is approaching behavioral health access challenges by first addressing one quality concern in particular: whether patients are actually getting better. That’s the premise behind the health system’s push to embed measurement-based care across its behavioral…
Ochsner Behavioral Health Acadiana welcomed its first patients July 8, marking the official launch of a regional behavioral health network built jointly by Ochsner Lafayette (La.) General and Plano, Texas-based Oceans Healthcare. The network pairs a newly built hospital in…
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The anxiety among healthcare leaders is widespread. Sixty-six percent of healthcare finance leaders now name Medicaid cuts their top concern, according to Strata’s latest survey — ahead of labor costs, payer negotiations and everything else. HR 1 is projected to…
Behavioral health leaders across the country are confronting a patient population that looks nothing like it did a decade ago: Emergency departments are seeing longer boarding times, inpatient units are treating more complex psychiatric and medical needs at once, and…
For CMS’ 2026 final rule, the agency broadened who can bill Medicare for patient navigation services. While the agency’s reimbursement pathway is still less than three years old, U.S. health systems have used patient navigators to help people move through…
Radiology Partners has named Matt Peterson president of RP Clinical Services and Krishna Nallamshetty, MD, chief operating officer of RP Clinical Services, effective July 20. Mr. Peterson, who most recently served as executive vice president and president of the behavioral…
Staten Island, N.Y.-based Richmond University Medical Center launched Youth Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), a community-based behavioral health program for individuals ages 10 to 24. The program is based at the Staten Island Mental Health Society, a division of Richmond University…