This is an exclusive BHB+ story Often hailed as a miracle drug, GLP-1 medications have been used to treat everything from diabetes to substance use disorders. But now an unlikely group of providers might be incorporating these medications into care. Eating disorder providers are exploring their potential to help patients with binge eating and bulimia […]
Eating disorders commonly overlap with mental health issues. New research shows that patients are acutely aware of the need to treat both concerns. One of the top motivating factors for people with eating disorders to seek treatment is concern over mental health, according to new data from digital eating disorder treatment provider Equip. Sixty-nine percent […]
Acadia Healthcare (Nasdaq: ACHC) reported diminished earnings and revenue growth in 2024. During Friday’s Q4 earnings call, company executives said they expect to see its [growth/efficiency?] efforts pay off in 2026. In 2022, CEO Chris Hunter vowed to double Acadia Healthcare’s revenue by 2028. The markets did not respond well to the news of the […]
Universal Health Service (NYSE: UHS) has reported strong annual financial performance – as well as concern regarding potential Medicaid budget cuts. Medicaid changes have negatively impacted UHS’s behavioral health arm before. In 2024, the provider attributed low behavioral health patient days, in part, to Medicaid redeterminations. “We acknowledge that the current political environment has created […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story Digital behavioral health startups experienced a tsunami of investor interest from 2020 to 2022. Founders now face a tough funding environment when growing their companies. As competition for funding dollars has increased, some say the pressure to become profitable as a new digital behavioral health startup is higher than […]
Virtual primary care provider LifeMD (Nasdaq: LFMD) has branched into the behavioral health industry and tapped a behavioral health executive with decades of experience to lead the expansion. New York City-based LifeMD announced Monday that it launched teletherapy, psychiatry and medication management services. It named Julian Cohen its senior vice president of behavioral health and […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story The outpatient mental health world was thrown for a loop when COVID-19 hit. Overnight, the nature of care shifted heavily to telehealth. And demand for care shot through the roof. Now, the industry has settled into a new normal. Before, the mental health industry had only a slightly greater […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story A rash of brutally negative press for some of the nation’s largest behavioral health providers may encourage the primarily nonprofit American hospital sector to look for potential partners that look like them — in other words, to be nonprofits. According to a handful of interviews and networking conversations I’ve […]
Nonprofit behavioral health provider Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health has acquired Strawberry Fields, a nonprofit provider of mental health, autism and intellectual disability care. Strawberry Fields will continue to operate as an independent legal entity but will have access to the larger organization’s systems and clinical model as an affiliate of Devereux. The acquisition will enable […]
Police documents show that a patient allegedly killed another patient at a Landmark Recovery facility in Louisville, Kentucky. The death adds another troubling entry to the company’s litany of bad news. The Nashville, Tennessee-based addiction treatment facility operator has self-reported the incident to Kentucky regulators and the Joint Commission, Matt Boyle, CEO and founder of […]
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