Outpatient youth behavioral health services will likely continue to attract interest from venture capital, especially services that are enabled by telehealth and AI. That was one takeaway from a panel regarding the future of youth behavioral health models, which was part of Behavioral Health Business’s INVEST conference held in Dallas. Jose Guerola, a principal at […]
After eight years working in the Indiana public schools as a speech-language pathologist (SLP), Ashley Whitaker decided to focus on helping children diagnosed with autism. “Speech is one the first symptoms people recognize in individuals with autism,” Whitaker told Autism Business News. She found a mentor in Janine Shapiro, a speech-language pathologist who had gone […]
A 45-year-old Maryland addiction treatment provider has radically expanded its services. Ashley Addiction Treatment announced that as of Oct. 1 it is providing telehealth mental health services for all Maryland residents, regardless of whether the patient has a substance use disorder (SUD) diagnosis. Ashley, a nonprofit organization that is headquartered in Havre de Grace, Maryland, […]
In 2021, Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt co-founded Within Health, a company with headquarters in Miami that provides telehealth for patients with eating disorders. Oliver-Pyatt has spent several years as a psychiatrist addressing eating disorders, which many providers recognize as one of the most complex and difficult to treat psychiatric problems. In the last year, a new […]
Eleanor Health, a company that offers “addiction treatment from the comfort of home” announced Monday that it has raised $30 million in its latest equity financing round. The Series D capital raise was led by General Catalyst, a multinational venture-capital firm that previously led Eleanor Health’s $50 million Series C funding round. General Catalyst’s wide-ranging […]
An autism care provider that touts a multifaceted treatment approach has expanded into North Carolina. Cortica Inc. announced last week that it has opened a center in Cary, North Carolina, a city just west of Raleigh and south of Durham. In addition to setting up shop in the Raleigh-Durham area, Cortica plans to open an […]
Tikvah Lake Recovery changed for the better when it “got rid of the 20 year olds on their phones,” according to Adam Nesenoff. Nesenoff has co-owed Tikvah Lake with his father, David Nesenoff, since 2016. It is a residential addiction treatment center in Sebring, Florida. More specifically, it is a self-described luxury rehabilitation center, charging […]
Autism therapy provider NeurAbilities Healthcare has a new CEO after its prior leader resigned in April. The Voorhees, New Jersey-based company tapped former Fresenius Medical Care executive Andrew Holstein to the CEO position, according to a LinkedIn announcement earlier this month, following the departure of Kathleen Stengel, the company’s CEO since 2018. “Drew brings decades […]
A federal audit released last week found that, despite changes in the law, Medicare and Medicaid enrollees may not have access to medications for opioid use disorder (OUD). In assessing why swaths of the country have spotty or nonexistent access to the federally approved medications methadone and buprenorphine, the U.S. Department of Health and Human […]
Mental health has firmly become an issue that some of the most powerful business leaders and politicians actually want to talk about. The subject was in the spotlight last Tuesday when the Business Roundtable and managed care insurer The Cigna Group (NYSE: CI) convened a “Mental Health Summit” in Washington, D.C., that featured two U.S. […]
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