Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) has increasingly become the gold standard for treating opioid use disorder (OUD). However, the industry has a long way to go in developing more therapies to better support patients with OUD. OUD treatment provider Groups Recover Together leverages MAT and group therapy to promote members’ recovery through in-person or virtual care models. […]

The 5th episode of the Behavioral Health Business Perspectives podcast is now available! For this episode of BHB Perspectives, we caught up with Cooper Zelnick, chief revenue officer at Groups Recover Together. During the conversation, Cooper breaks down Groups’ approaches to value-based care, geographic expansion and Medicaid redeterminations. Listen to this episode of Perspectives to […]

Value-based care is a buzz word in the behavioral health sector. But few organizations in substance use disorder or mental health have built their care model solely based on a value-based approach. Eleanor Health, which was founded in 2019, was one of the first providers to take a population-based and value-based care approach to treating […]

The fourth episode of the Behavioral Health Business Perspectives podcast is now live! Behavioral Health Business Editor Laura Lovett sits down with Corbin Petro, founder of Eleanor health and trailblazers in the value-based care movement. They discuss the future of Petro’s recent transition out of the CEO role at Eleanor Health, the future of value-based […]

The Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) is now back under the leadership of its founder and former CEO. Doreen Granpeesheh and her business partner Sangam Pant acquired CARD out of bankruptcy in a deal involving a consortium made up of PE firm Audax Group and its portfolio companies. The deal — approved by […]

The third episode of the Behavioral Health Business Perspectives podcast is now live! BHB reporter Chris Larson sits down with Doreen Granpeesheh, the founder and CEO of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD). They discuss the origins of CARD, its growth as the largest autism therapy provider in the U.S., why it fell […]

Aware Recovery Care CEO Brian Holzer is focused on quality over quantity. Under his direction, the in-home addiction recovery provider has prioritized increasing its density of services instead of expanding its footprint. Aware’s in-home addiction care model, now offered in 11 states, is unusual in a landscape of in-center or virtual offerings. The Wallingford, Connecticut-based […]

Samir Malik, the CEO of firsthand, and Marie Hannah, a recovery peer for the company based in Nashville, know that those in the greatest need of behavioral health treatment are often the hardest to reach. The New York City-based startup uses a field-work-heavy approach to peer support work as part of a value-based care partnership […]

The 2nd episode of the Behavioral Health Business Perspectives podcast is now available! For this episode of BHB Perspectives, we caught up with Brian Holzer, the CEO of Aware Recovery Care. During the conversation, Holzer discussed his post-acute care background, the evolution of the behavioral health landscape, Aware’s one-of-a-kind model and more. Listen to this […]

The 1st episode of the Behavioral Health Business Perspectives podcast is now available! For this episode of BHB Perspectives, we caught up with Samir Malik, the CEO of firsthand, and Marie Hannah, one of the company’s peers. During the conversation, Malik and Hannah discussed the value of peer-support models, firsthand’s momentum and more. Listen to […]