This is an exclusive BHB+ story Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services creates significant uncertainty for the behavioral health industry. That puts it diplomatically. Under Kennedy, health care could undergo a brutally painful evolution to bring about his highly skeptical and well-outside-of-mainstream worldview. And I […]
Ten behavioral health founders have been featured on the 2025 Inc. Female Founder 500 list. The list seeks to be the “definitive list of women entrepreneurs making significant waves in business,” Diana Ransom, executive editor of Inc. Magazine, said in an article explaining the methodology for establishing the list. Those featured on the list lead […]
After a relatively quiet 2024, executives expect to see some changes in the behavioral health industry next year. For starters, M&A, which was relatively slow in 2024, is set to pick up as a new administration that many have dubbed more “business friendly” takes the reins. While this consolidation will likely look different from the […]
For years, partial hospitalization (PHP) and intensive outpatient programs (IOP) occupied a cloudy middle ground in behavioral health. The treatments, where patients mostly live at home but spend several hours a week in acute care, existed somewhere in between once-a-week therapy appointments and residential treatment. That has changed, say PHP and IOP providers, who report […]
The behavioral health industry is constantly seeking to bolster its clinician supply to meet raging levels of unmet mental health needs. Access to care could improve significantly if more providers offered group therapy. Group therapy is a rare behavioral health modality that promises benefits under both value-based care and fee-for-service reimbursement models, largely due to […]
Pediatric behavioral health provider Bend Health has launched a new virtual acute stabilization program in 25 states. The multi-pronged virtual program is designed to be a step up from traditional outpatient care and a step down from inpatient programs. The new program was born out of a need for an intensive level of care for […]
Value-based care has been part of the health care discourse for decades. But behavioral health providers have only recently placed a new emphasis on breaking away from the fee-for-service paradigm. While still nascent in practice across the industry, several behavioral health organizations are seeking to introduce models that feature elements of risk sharing, trading outcomes […]
The virtual pediatric mental health startup Bend Health has expanded its services to young adults. Founded in 2021, the Madison, Wisconsin-based startup was focused on caring for children up to age 17 and their families through partnerships with pediatricians based on the collaborative care model. The extension of services to young people up to age […]
Online autism testing could give patients and caregivers more options for neuropsychological testing and help unclog the current diagnostic backlog. There is a severe shortage of clinicians qualified and trained to perform diagnostics for autism or other neurodiversities. This creates a systematic bottleneck for those needing behavioral health services, delaying their care and potentially worsening […]
Virtual pediatric behavioral health provider Bend Health revealed a new service line: virtual neuropsychological evaluations. The new service helps curb the bottleneck in the youth behavioral health ecosystem and presents a potentially more effective diagnostic option than traditional evaluations, Dr. Monika Roots, Bend’s co-founder and president, told Behavioral Health Business “I think that it can […]
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