‘The Future of Care Delivery Is Hybrid’: Resilience Lab Re-Opens Headquarters for In-Person Visits

New York City-based Resilience Lab has opened its headquarters in the Flatiron District to in-person visits, announcing that the organization will shift its care delivery to a hybrid model. The fast-growing outpatient mental health provider shifted “99.9” to telehealth in a week and upended its hyper-local approach to giving access to mental health services, Marc […]

$250M Proposal Takes Another Stab at Incentivizing EHR Adoption in Behavioral Health

U.S. lawmakers hope to spur additional electronic health record (EHR) adoption in behavioral health by creating a financial incentive to do so. The Behavioral Health Information Technologies (BHIT) Now Act, formally known as House Resolution 7427, would appropriate $250 million to be issued over three fiscal federal years by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid […]

Even with Telehealth as New Normal, Many Behavioral Health Providers Keep Pursuing De Novo Growth

Some outpatient behavioral health companies are continuing with bold de novo growth strategies even while telehealth continues to have a major impact on the sector. Telehealth has swiftly taken over many aspects of outpatient visits in the behavioral health industry in just three years. Multiple studies and reviews show that telehealth has had and continues […]

Only 25% of Behavioral Health Leaders Feel Prepared for Value-Based Care, Citing Concerns Over Data Collection

A new survey shows a hesitance by behavioral health executives to use real-time data gathering to guide care and help their organizations implement value-based care arrangements. The survey — released by Portland-based Owl and trade organization MHCA — measures the attitudes and priorities of nearly 100 community mental health center executives surveyed in October 2021 […]

Eleos Health Raises $20M to Fuel Its AI-Powered Voice Analysis Platform for Behavioral Health

The startup Eleos Health announced Tuesday that it landed $20 million in Series A funding. The company — which has offices in Boston and Tel Aviv, Israel — casts itself as an integrated “CareOps Automation” provider for behavioral health providers that uses voice AI to interpret the conversation of patients and providers to generate post-session […]

Virtual MAT Provider PursueCare Launches Hybrid Care Services in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, More States Planned

Virtual medication-assisted treatment (MAT) provider PursueCare is branching out into hybrid care as it has launched outpatient services in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Middletown, Connecticut-based PursueCare is rolling out the outpatient services along with virtual care at the locations. The company – which to date has raised $12.8 million – has begun offering outpatient assistance […]

evolvedMD Partners with NeuroFlow to Scale HonorHealth’s Regional Collaborative Care Program

evolvedMD, which provides behavioral health staffing and services to primary care providers, is partnering with care coordination platform NeuroFlow at over 20 locations in the Southwest. Philadelphia-based NeuroFlow will employ its proprietary patient registry and mobile technology as part evolveMD’s collaboration with HonorHealth, a nonprofit health care provider based in Arizona. NeuroFlow’s registry will collect […]

Amita Health COO: Behavioral Health Providers Who Can’t Quantify the Impact of Care Will Struggle in Value-Based Care World

Amita Health’s behavioral health division adopted measurement-based care because it wanted to understand how and if the care it offered made a difference in the health of its patients. Jason Washburn, a clinical psychologist at Northwestern University and a consultant for Amita Health Behavioral Medicine, said about 15 years ago the Chicago-based health care system […]

Armed With Over $11M in New Funding, Nirvana Health Aims to Help Behavioral Health Providers Simplify Insurance and Operations

New York-based Nirvana Health continues to see growth by helping behavioral health providers streamline their business operations, which includes assisting them with billing processing services.  Nirvana works with clinicians across all 50 states in managing back end operations with insurance reimbursements. Founded in 2019 and having officially launched for business the following year, Nirvana to […]