Years into a national behavioral health workforce shortage, many provider organizations are now seeking to leverage peer specialists. Advocates argue that peers could be a crucial part of expanding behavioral health access and supporting patients holistically in their recovery. Yet reimbursement challenges and varying state licensure requirements have historically created barriers for providers utilizing the […]
On average, a person seeking youth addiction treatment would need to call nine providers to find one that offered buprenorphine, the only medication approved for the treatment of youth with opioid use disorder (OUD). These results, and others like them, highlight serious gaps in access to evidence-based treatments in the residential addiction treatment segment, according […]
Only 57.9% of pharmacies in the U.S. stock buprenorphine, a prescription used for medication-assisted treatment (MAT). That’s according to new research published in JAMA highlighting a potential access issue for patients in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment. The cross-sectional study was based on data from virtual MAT provider Bicycle Health and included responses from 5,283 […]
Federal health agencies have released new national model standards for peer support certification focused on the behavioral health workforce. The goal of the model standards – penned by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Office of Recovery, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – is to speed […]
Aware Recovery Care has raised $35 million through a Series B funding round. The funding enables the Wallingford, Connecticut-based in-home addiction recovery and support provider to expand into new markets and deepen its presence in existing markets. The Series B round breaks down to $25 million in equity and $10 million in debt and options […]
Substance use disorder (SUD) treatment is a crucial part of the teen behavioral health crisis. While the rate of youth SUD has held steady after a COVID-19 dip, teens in need of treatment often face several structural barriers to care, including a lack of available providers and access to family therapy. Treating teens with SUD […]
With the end of the Public Health Emergency in May 2023, the DEA has set the stage for the return of the Ryan Haight Act by proposing rules, including requiring prescribers to have an in-person visit in order to write prescriptions for controlled substances. The DEA received over 38,000 comments on the proposed rules. The […]
The proposed telehealth-prescribing rules from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) could require digital addiction providers to fundamentally change their business model and limit patient access to virtual addiction treatment. These new rules will likely hit patients with the least access to status quo treatment models the hardest, especially for access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT). “Roughly […]
Community support often falls outside of the addiction treatment-managed care fee-for-service paradigm. Payers and providers alike know the importance of fostering community in addiction treatment, and it’s a key to effective treatment and long-term recovery. However, developing communities fall far beyond their typical scope of services. Regardless, innovations around managed and value-based care seek to […]
Virtual substance use disorder provider Workit Health has announced plans to reduce its workforce by 100 employees as a result of Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) new proposal that would effectively undue controlled substance prescribing via telehealth. Workit, like many telehealth companies focused on treating substance use disorder, prescribes medication assisted treatment virtually. The new DEA […]
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