Talkiatry fills leadership roles with new hires Virtual behavioral health provider Talkiatry has added to its leadership team with two new hires. Adam Bunke joins New York-based Talkiatry as its head of design. Bunke comes to the company from Philips, where he was a design director and creative strategist for the global conglomerate. Bunke has […]
Category: Substance Use
CleanSlate Centers, which operates addiction treatment clinics across a number of states, has agreed to pay $4.5 million to Massachusetts’ Medicaid and Medicare programs over allegations it submitted fraudulent claims and performed unnecessary patient services beginning in the early 2010s. The Massachusetts’ Attorney General’s (AG) Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) negotiated the settlement […]
Dallas-based Behavioral Health Group continues its growth streak with the acquisition of Boise, Idaho-based Center for Behavioral Health. The deal expands Behavioral Health Group’s footprint into five new states. It now operates 116 facilities and two labs in 23 states. Center for Behavioral Health operates 20 treatment centers in Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, […]
Revelstoke Capital Partners and Canadian-based Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) have completed a recapitalization of an affiliate of Crossroads Treatment Centers. Greenville, South Carolina-based Crossroads Treatment Centers operates over 115 clinics across 10 states for substance use disorder (SUD) and mental health, reaching more than 26,000 lives deemed as being at-risk. Revelstoke […]
Digital health continued its tear in 2021, as the number of deals and the amount of funding in the space reached record levels. And if mental health had not already proven itself as a major engine driving activity, 2021 definitely underscored that fact. Digital startups based in the U.S. hauled in $29.1 billion over the […]
Digital health continues to be a hot commodity, as funding for the category exceeded the $20 billion mark in 2021. Telehealth use across the health spectrum has reached stratospheric levels, all of which leaves the telebehavioral health world in a unique position to take advantage of the demand. And what seemed only a few years […]
Health Connect America (HCA), a provider of behavioral health services in the Southeast, announced Thursday the acquisition of three companies to further grow its platform. The deals add Georgia HOPE, Pinnacle Family Services Holdings LLC and Healing Educational Alternatives for Deserving Students LLC (HEADS) to Health Connect America’s portfolio, enabling the provider to serve more […]
The U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday that it has put up $330 million in potential grant awards meant to address the deepening addiction crisis in the U.S. through law enforcement initiatives. Leading into the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. was grappling with an intransigent drug overdose epidemic, largely driven by evergrowing numbers of people dying from […]
The fight against substance use disorder (SUD) in America, at times, seems to be a neverending one. Massive on an economic scale, it is estimated that SUDs cost the nation $600 billion annually. Then, of course, is the emotional and public health toll of the epidemic, measured routinely in numbers published by organizations like the […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services revealed new support for states to get behavioral health crisis intervention services to those experiencing mental health- or addiction-related crises in real-time. The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which became law in March, grants CMS new authority to provide states with additional funding and tools to enhance […]
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