Expanding numbers of nurse practitioners have filled the void left by the declining influence of physicians involved in behavioral health care. However, the rise of nurse practitioners has not totally offset downward trends among physicians in terms of the general mental health workforce or in terms of national medication-assisted treatment (MAT) capacity, according to two […]
The picture around the mental health provider shortage has come into focus with the formation of a new national database. Researchers with the George Washington University released a comprehensive national database of all primary care providers, behavioral health specialists and other physician specialists that prescribed more than 11 behavioral health medications in 2020. The researchers […]
Venture capital-backed Foresight Mental Health nearly ran out of cash, forcing it to cut roughly 20% of its workforce and hire a new CEO to turn the company around. The Berkeley, California-based outpatient mental health provider will have laid off 200 employees in two rounds by Sept. 9. The company, which once made big promises […]
Several large autism service providers in the U.S. are undergoing a wave of layoffs and closures. Notably, applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy services providers 360 Behavioral Health and The Center for Autism & Related Disorders (CARD) have collectively reduced their staff by the hundreds. Yet, these are not the only ABA providers considering layoffs. Social […]
Approximately 130 million Americans live in 5,900 regions designated as having a mental health clinician shortage. New data from the Kaiser Family Foundation shed light on the disparity in mental health clinician shortage between states. At a national level, the United States would require about 6,600 new mental health practitioners to meet the demand in […]
Discovery Behavioral Health hires chief medical officer Los Alamitos, California-based Discovery Behavioral Health hired Dr. Matthew Ruble, a psychiatrist, as its chief medical officer. He reports to the company CEO and President John Peloquin. Discovery Behavioral Health operates 130 mental health, substance use and eating disorder treatment centers in 13 states. Before joining the company, […]
Behavioral health provider LifeStance (NASDAQ: LFST) has announced Danish Qureshi will replace Gwen Booth as chief operating officer. Currently, Qureshi serves as the company’s chief growth officer, where he is responsible for organic growth initiatives for the company. This news comes after Booth announced she will be retiring from the position on July 1. Booth […]
With behavioral health capacity shortages on the rise, Universal Health Services Inc. (NYSE: UHS) is telling payers to keep up with reimbursement trends – or go elsewhere. The message is an important shift in behavioral health-payer relations that reflects the current operating environment. It’s also one being echoed across the health care sector, with home […]
Nagging workforce issues may scuttle Universal Health Services Inc.’s (NYSE: UHS) financial projections for 2022. The company’s financial forecasts predicted that the massive increase in labor costs would begin to abate in 2022: It has not. Increased spending on wages for staffing agency workers, driven by COVID-19 and a prevailing workforce shortage, stymied both revenues […]
Medicare beneficiaries may have trouble accessing behavioral health care, as clinicians in that field make up a sizable portion of all practitioners who opt out of the program. About 43% of the 28,000 providers who refuse Medicare reimbursement work in behavioral health disciplines such as psychiatry, clinical social work, addiction medicine and psychology, among others […]
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