This is an exclusive BHB+ story Behavioral health companies are now hiring for new positions that didn’t exist three or even five years ago. Roles like “cyberpsychologist,” “media psychologist,” and “advisor of health device management” are becoming more common as technology is integrated even further into all facets of U.S. health care. The explosion of […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story The Trump administration has undone the near-total ban on noncompete agreements in the U.S. originally enacted by the Biden administration. Now, it is taking the pulse of American industry before deciding on these restrictive workplace covenants. Until then, the federal rules around the use of noncompetes are effectively back […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story Autism diagnostics in the U.S. are ripe for innovation. There is no shortage of new tests, tools and tech that seek to get a potential autism spectrum disorder diagnosed faster, more accurately, more specifically, or earlier in a child’s life. The day when any number of the companies vying […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story Out-of-network billing is almost unheard of in autism therapy — a stark outlier in behavioral health where such practices are common. Out-of-network billing for applied behavior analysis (ABA), the core therapy of the industry, accounts for mid- to low-single digits of health care spending in some estimations across any […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story Behavioral health providers have been slow to adopt Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) services because of the devices’ costs and bulky size. However, newer versions have been designed to be smaller and more lightweight, making the technology increasingly accessible to consumers with the rise of in-home neuromodulation. In 2008, TMS […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story Momentum in the serious mental illness (SMI) sector of behavioral health is steering away from episodic and reactionary and more toward whole-person, comprehensive care. Historically, SMIs have been a collection of mental health conditions that even trained clinicians veer from due to their inherent complexities. Yet, I believe there […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story A small but lively movement in state legislatures may add a new player to the mental health prescriber team. Several states have recently considered giving specialized psychologists the authority to prescribe and manage patients treated with mental health-related medications. Last year, Utah became the seventh state to create such […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story Maternal mental health and well-being have been on the clinical back burner for years. That is compounded by the U.S. having some of the worst maternal mortality rates and poor maternal health outcomes of any industrially developed nation. Against this backdrop, practitioners increasingly say maternal mental health should be […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story Pediatric behavioral health services emerged as a crisis point during the COVID-19 pandemic when stories of children boarding in emergency departments for weeks began to surface. And the state of youth mental health hasn’t improved. A new survey by Blue Cross Blue Shield of California found that 94% of […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story Addiction treatment providers are already stretched thin. Burnout and stress rates for the profession skyrocketed after the pandemic and haven’t subsided. Providers are now facing a new challenge: trying to untangle what the substance use disorder (SUD) Medicaid work requirement exemptions mean for their patients – a complex task […]
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