Nebraska’s $25.5 million behavioral health workforce initiative supported more than 800 trainees, expanded rural telebehavioral health services and helped organizations recruit and retain clinicians, according to a study published June 24 in Psychiatric Services. Researchers at the University of Nebraska…
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Michelle Schafer’s tenure as CEO of Nashville, Tenn.-based Mental Health Cooperative ended in June, according to LinkedIn. The behavioral health provider has named Corey Cronrath, DO, interim CEO, according to its website. Dr. Cronrath also serves as chief medical officer…
Minnesota is seeking federal approval to participate in the CMS Reentry Services Demonstration, a program that allows state Medicaid programs to cover behavioral healthcare services and chronic disease care for incarcerated people up to 90 days before release, according to…
The California Department of Public Health has approved temporary rule waivers for 23 hospitals after a nurse-patient ratio rule went into effect June 1, Mercury News reported June 29. The new regulations require 35 psychiatric hospitals to assign one nurse…
When clinicians don’t trust clinical decision-support tools, they don’t just ignore them. They spend extra time verifying and correcting AI-generated recommendations undermining productivity and compromising the very quality-of-care gains these tools are meant to deliver. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting,…
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Emergency department visits for suspected suicide attempts declined overall from Jan. 1, 2021 to Dec. 31, but adolescents continued to have the highest visit proportions and adults age 26 and older saw increases, according to a CDC study published June…
The New Mexico Department of Justice opened a formal investigation into allegations that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration knowingly allowed fentanyl pills to be distributed in New Mexico communities. Attorney General Raúl Torrez said the investigation followed Gov. Michelle Lujan…
Real-time medication price transparency is no longer a someday ambition. As of 2025, 75 percent of hospitals had integrated real-time prescription benefit information for at least some payers, CMS has required Medicare Part D plans to support these tools since…
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- Christie Callahan, Chief Product Officer, Interra Health
- Lauren Hackenberg, Senior Director, Provider Capabilities, Optum
Federal prosecutors and auditors are targeting Medicaid behavioral health fraud on multiple fronts, with billions in alleged false claims under scrutiny nationally and two states alone facing audit findings of more than $123 million combined in potentially improper payments for…
Scarcity has always shaped healthcare. “Triage” assumes there isn’t enough to treat everyone at the level they need. “Population health” often means concentrating limited resources on the highest-risk sliver of a panel. But a new generation of clinically safe AI voice…
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