Eager for Parity Reform, Outpatient Mental Health Should Expect to ‘Step Up’ Care Quality

Parity reform may heighten clinical and administrative requirements for outpatient mental health providers. These laws may make in-network agreements simpler and more profitable, as many providers hope. Yet talk of parity is often one-sided, focused on perceived payer wrongs. This overshadows the role of clinicians and their organizations in increasing access to and improving care […]

Rogers Behavioral Health Adds 3rd CEO Since 2022; Brightside Health Adds Thirty Madison Alum to Leadership Team

Nonprofit giant Rogers Behavioral Health names new CEO Robergs Behavioral Health, an Oconomowoc, Wisconsin-based diversified behavioral health provider, is on its third CEO since the fall of 2022. On Aug. 18, the nonprofit announced that Cindy Meyer had been named CEO. She has had the role on an interim basis since May 2023. She stepped […]

Brightside Health Launches Nationwide Suicide Prevention Program

Behavioral health tech company Brightside Health launched a telehealth service for those with elevated suicide risk. The San Francisco-based startup moves into an area that many behavioral health tech companies have struggled to reach with the new service — treating serious mental illness (SMI). The new service, called Crisis Care, is designated for actively suicidal […]

Brightside Health Raises $50M in Series B to Expand Behavioral Services, Grow Staff

Digital behavioral care provider Brightside Health has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by ACME Capital and Mousse Partners.  The latest round brings the amount raised to date by San Francisco-based Brightside to $75 million. The company last year raised $24 million in a Series A round. Existing investors that participated in […]

Funding Roundup: Post-Hospitalization Behavioral Platform Launches; Brightside Snags $24M

Laguna Health launches with $6.6M Laguna Health, which provides digital care tools and virtual behavioral health care to individuals post-hospitalization, has launched after raising $6.6 million in seed funding. Pitango HealthTech and LionBird led the round. Additional participants include Hippo Insurance founder and CEO Assaf Wand and Onduo founder and CEO Josh Riff. Laguna’s business […]