The behavioral health arm of Universal Health Services (NYSE: UHS) is seeing growth in its outpatient services following a management reorganization that assigns leaders dedicated to the development of care outside of the legacy inpatient business. The King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based health care facility operator reported a roughly 6% increase in behavioral health outpatient revenue […]
Acadia Healthcare Co. (NASDAQ: ACHC) will shutter multiple branded treatment entities across the country, impacting hundreds of roles. In September, Behavioral Health Business reported the provider would eliminate 90 positions in North Carolina and close one of its Indiana facilities. New public data and commentary from the company show that this bout of closures is […]
New research posits that emergency departments may provide a key setting to get people with opioid use disorders (OUDs) into treatment at scale, potentially driving up the dismally low number of people with such diagnoses accessing treatment. An examination of the CA Bridge program and other data from California reveals that the implementation of this […]
Chris Hunter, CEO of Acadia Healthcare Co. (Nasdaq: ACHC), struck an optimistic tone Wednesday as the company stares down a wave of reforms to Medicaid, which accounts for about 60% of Acadia’s revenue. Hunter noted on the company’s second-quarter earnings call that there will be a several-years-long wind-up to the implementation of the many looming […]
On Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final rule for inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPF) prospective payments and care quality reporting for Medicare payments. According to an announcement from CMS, the coming fiscal year 2026 will see an increase in net payments within the IPF prospective payment system of 2.4%, or […]
Top executives at Universal Health Services (NYSE: UHS) laid out a guarded but optimistic outlook for the future of the company as it stares down changes to Medicaid and other safety-net programs. On Tuesday, UHS CEO Marc Miller and CFO Steve Filton said the company has demonstrated the ability to pivot in the face of […]
The use of collaborative care models has taken off in terms of utilization by providers and patients alike. A new study by Milliman details explosive early growth of the collaborative care model, an integration of behavioral health services into the primary care setting. Depending on how you slice it, the report shows massive growth increases […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story While workforce woes have begun to improve in the behavioral health industry overall, the idea of mandatory staffing minimums in psychiatric hospitals has started to circulate. For many of us, 2004 was the year of low-rise jeans, wearing dresses with pants and LiveStrong bracelets. If you were in the […]
The safety-net and nonprofit segments of the addiction treatment industry have long faced immense challenges. But those challenges have produced some of the most compelling innovations in terms of clinical, operational and reimbursement models. One key element of this development is the necessity to understand a community’s needs, Beth Keeney, CEO and president of Jeffersonville, […]
Psychiatric hospital data submitted to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) illustrate a vast range of care and procedural outcomes. They also show that even the best-performing hospitals have limits when striving for operational and clinical perfection. In other words, no psych hospitals are batting 1.000. Nonetheless, these and other data demonstrate […]
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