The scrutiny around mental health startup Cerebral Inc. following the company’s meteoric rise and subsequent criticism has generated new challenges for the company. A House committee has launched a review of how the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has enforced the Ryan Haight Act, which dictates how controlled substances are allowed to be prescribed via telehealth. […]
CVS Health Inc. (NYSE: CVS) will offer mental health and other primary care services through a new single platform — CVS Health Virtual Primary Care. The Woonsocket, Rhode Island-based health care conglomerate will make the platform available to eligible Aetna members starting Jan. 1, 2023, and for eligible CVS Caremark members during the second quarter […]
Mental health providers are increasingly innovating among specific patient populations as part of their value-based care strategies, a trend that’s turning into a challenge for insurers and employers. One of the pain points is the focus on only a subset of individuals, when employers and insurers are looking more broadly at their entire population. Payers […]
CVS Health Corp. (NYSE: CVS) saw the number of mental health visits it provided via telehealth in 2021 increase 1,000x compared to pre-pandemic levels. On Wednesday, CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch said this explosion in digital mental health visits is more widely indicative of the Woonsocket, Rhode Island-based retail health care and health benefits company’s […]
The quest for value-based care in behavioral health is driving far-reaching changes that could upend industry practices for payers and providers. Notably, this could result in the extinction of behavioral health carve-outs. Top executives told attendees of VALUE, a Behavioral Health Business event, that carving out behavioral benefits acts as an impediment to addressing the […]
Matthew Truebe, formerly the vice president of product and engineering at Cerebral Inc., alleges that he was retaliated against after raising questions about how the company handles prescription medication. As reported by Bloomberg Law, Truebe alleges he was fired a year after being hired because he apparently refused to sign an amendment to his employment […]
Since its founding in 2019, virtual provider Equip has been doing its part to help stem the tide of eating disorders. Now, after having proved its outcomes-based treatment approach to insurer Aetna, the two companies are partnering to offer services to plan beneficiaries. Aetna – which is owned by pharmacy giant CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) […]
Aetna has announced that it is partnering with eating disorder treatment provider Equip to provide virtual treatment services to the insurer’s commercial members. The program will initially be rolled out to Aetna members in California, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas and Washington, with hopes to roll it out to more states next year. The […]
The creation of urgent mental health care in retail locations isn’t coming, it’s already underway. Huge players in the retail and health care space have already built a foundation for themselves to make mental health care more accessible. Over the last 20 years or so, urgent care blazed a new retail-like trail for physical health […]
One of the autism care industry’s largest providers has made some major changes to its leadership ranks. The Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) named Jennifer Webster as its CEO on Wednesday. She replaces Tony Kilgore, who had been in the position since 2019 and resigned for undisclosed reasons. Webster has been with CARD […]
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