HHS awarded $96.7 million in grants and cooperative agreements to support behavioral health services across the U.S. The funding covers initiatives related to serious mental illness, homelessness, suicide prevention, substance use disorder treatment, workforce support, peer services and disaster-related emotional…
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Employer groups have stopped treating retrospective reports as good enough. They want analytics that help control costs, improve outcomes and guide decisions. Highmark is responding by turning employer reporting into a more proactive, strategic tool. With a unified data platform,…
Sep 24, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Tricia Gray, VP, Sales Enablement, Highmark
- Dave Wolf, SVP, Commercial Product, MedeAnalytics
Connecticut invested more than $4 million in opioid settlement funds into the development of mobile methadone units aimed at expanding access to treatment, according to an Aug. 17 CT Mirror report. The APT Foundation — a nonprofit organization based in…
Emergency involuntary psychiatric detention rates varied 33-fold across 25 U.S. states, from 29 per 100,000 people in Connecticut to 966 per 100,000 in Florida between 2011 and 2018, according to research published Nov. 3, 2020, in Psychiatric Services. Researchers —…
For anesthesia groups, a strong Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score takes more than strong care — it depends on how completely that care is documented and reported, and a weak score lands directly on Medicare reimbursement. That’s harder than…
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Coastal Pines Behavioral Health marked the completion of its 144-bed acute behavioral health hospital in St. Augustine, Fla., with an Aug. 14 ribbon-cutting ceremony. The hospital is expected to begin serving patients in the coming weeks, according to an Aug.…
North Carolina health officials are warning providers about medetomidine, a veterinary tranquilizer that is increasingly appearing in the state’s illegal drug supply, NC Health News reported Aug. 17. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services sent a provider…
King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services has completed its acquisition of online behavioral health provider Talkspace in a deal valued at about $835 million. UHS and Talkspace first announced the deal in March and have now received all necessary…
Hospital pharmacy teams have spent years mastering cost control. But as care shifts to outpatient settings and specialty and infusion therapies grow as a share of the formulary, medications are no longer just budget line items – they are potential…
Sep 23, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
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- AJ Rivosecchi, PharmD, Director of Product, Bluesight
- Don Bladt, PharmD, Director of Inpatient Pharmacy Operations, Phoenix Children’s
- Sean Tingum, PharmD, Director of Infusion, Oncology, and Research Services, Essentia Health
- Ryan Anderson, PharmD, Pharmacy Manager, Supply Chain and Operations, VCU Health System
Several states are taking legal steps to mitigate kratom consumption across the country. The drug, derived from a tropical tree native to Southeast Asia, contains more than 50 alkaloids in its leaves, including mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, or 7-OH. The latter…