South Carolina's department of health and human services has created a new $35 million crisis stabilization service grant program.
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The Healing Corner, a shuttered Milwaukee addiction center, must pay more than $2 million for allegedly defrauding Medicaid, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported March 3.
Mill Brown, MD, has been named chief medical officer of Spring Health, the developer of a digital mental healthcare platform.
Medical schools, hospitals and national organizations have launched initiatives and programs to better incorporate mental health services into primary care.
Former Carolina Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith, Durham, N.C.-based Alliance Health, and the county of Mecklenburg have teamed up to open a new behavioral health urgent care center in Charlotte, N.C., WFAE reported March 2.
Providence, R.I.-based Recovery Connection Centers of America has closed its chain of 15 facilities across Rhode Island and Massachusetts after its founder was charged with healthcare fraud, WBUR reported March 2.
A Washington State Department of Health report found that behavioral health conditions, predominantly suicide or overdoses, were a leading cause of pregnancy-releated deaths, according to the 2023 report from the state's maternal mortality review panel .
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and the state Department of Health Services awarded $1 million in grants across 10 organizations to address mental health disparities across the state, according to a March 3 report from the Green Bay Press-Gazette.
Liberty Township (Ohio) police arrested six adolescents after a riot at behavioral health hospital Belmont Pines, according to a report from CBS affiliate WKBN.
A 61-year-old Texas physician and companies he owned and operated are paying $3 million to resolve claims they improperly billed Medicare, the Justice Department said March 3.