Recently announced changes to Medicare telebehavioral health coverage will impact the entire industry whether providers contract with the program or not. The move from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) marks an acceleration of telehealth on top of staking out a point-of-no-return for the industry’s progression toward digital adoption. CMS announced at the […]
Aptihealth Inc. announced Wednesday that it landed $50 million as part of its Series B funding round. To date, The Boston-based high-acuity digital behavioral health provider said it has raised $65 million since launching in 2018. Aptihealth provides telebehavioral health in partnership with other health care providers through its tech platform to better connect care […]
Groups Recover Together, which is in the midst of an ambitious nationwide expansion, is supporting those efforts with the addition of two new members to its C-suite. The Burlington, Massachusetts-based provider — known also as “Groups,” and which treats 9,000 members across 13 states for opioid use disorder (OUD) — has appointed Matt Levesque to […]
The evolution of the behavioral health industry has been spurred on not just by more people wanting care, but the advancement of technologies to better enable access to services. This is happening as health care moves toward a value-based payment system, which many in the industry feel can be aided by the adoption of new […]
As a majority of the medical and healthcare community have made the transition to electronic health records over the past decade, behavioral health providers have fallen behind in adopting EHRs in their process, which can cause difficulties for integrating care for behavioral health patients. At a September public meeting for the Medicaid and CHIP Payment […]
The Place for Children with Autism names new chief financial officer The Place for Children with Autism, a Chicago-based provider of applied behavior therapy (ABA), has named Kristin Schultz as its chief financial officer. Schultz arrives at The Place from R1 RCM, where she was the senior director of corporate accounting for the Utah-based health […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a final rule that it says promotes wider use of telehealth in the behavioral health industry. On Tuesday, the federal health care regulator announced its final rule on the Physician Fee Schedule for Medicare payments for the calendar year 2022. In it, CMS eliminates restrictions on where […]
Mental health claims continue to encompass a huge share of telehealth utilization in the U.S. But for the first time this year, that share of telehealth claims shrank — a little. This comes within an incremental, but months-long decline in overall telehealth utilization in the U.S., according to new data from New York City-based nonprofit […]
After reorganizing its health division, Google has made a new hire with the addition of Megan Jones Bell as its clinical director of consumer and mental health. The tech giant made the announcement in a press release Tuesday, with Bell assuming her new role this week. Bell arrives at Google from Headspace Health, where she […]
UnitedHealthcare Group (NYSE: UNH) is rolling out a new health plan for members that allows them to receive various services — including behavioral health care — both virtually and in-person. NavigateNOW is a 24/7 service offered to employers in nine markets, in which members are given access to a care team provided by Optum, which […]
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