This is a BHB+ exclusive article Operating an eating disorder treatment provider is no small feat, as doing so requires mental and physical health expertise. Over the last few years, we’ve seen a number of providers either exit or pull back on eating disorder treatment service lines. Most recently, Acadia Healthcare (Nasdaq: ACHC) announced a […]
Virtual eating disorder treatment provider Equip Health disclosed raising $46.6 million in public documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Carlsbad, California-based company has raised a total of $156.3 million, including this round, according to Crunchbase. Kristina Saffran, CEO of Equip Health, signed off on the filing. It also disclosed that the raise […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story Often hailed as a miracle drug, GLP-1 medications have been used to treat everything from diabetes to substance use disorders. But now an unlikely group of providers might be incorporating these medications into care. Eating disorder providers are exploring their potential to help patients with binge eating and bulimia […]
Eating disorders commonly overlap with mental health issues. New research shows that patients are acutely aware of the need to treat both concerns. One of the top motivating factors for people with eating disorders to seek treatment is concern over mental health, according to new data from digital eating disorder treatment provider Equip. Sixty-nine percent […]
The eating disorder treatment sector has transformed dramatically in the past few years, with 2025 poised to bring further disruption through virtual care expansion, market consolidation and evolving patient needs. This evolution is occurring on the heels of a string of notable eating disorder treatment facility closures in 2023 and 2024. Despite the shuttering of […]
Behavioral health providers are hungry for meaningful innovations in treatment modalities. A cutting-edge technique known as precision psychiatry could be an answer to fostering more timely and improved outcomes, experts told Behavioral Health Business. This practice, an application of the more general term precision medicine, requires significant data and technology investments, however, which could hamper […]
In 2021, Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt co-founded Within Health, a company with headquarters in Miami that provides telehealth for patients with eating disorders. Oliver-Pyatt has spent several years as a psychiatrist addressing eating disorders, which many providers recognize as one of the most complex and difficult to treat psychiatric problems. In the last year, a new […]
Eating disorders have among the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric illness and remission rates among patients with eating disorders are, by some estimates, as low as 29%. New treatment modalities are urgently needed to improve outcomes, especially for people with severe and enduring eating disorders, industry insiders told Behavioral Health Business. Despite this, funding […]
Eating disorder services remained in high demand in 2023. As a result, there were several major investments. But it wasn’t all smooth sailing for the industry. In late 2023, two large PE-backed behavioral health providers scaled back eating disorder services. Eating disorder providers will have to tackle increasingly complex, higher acuity cases in 2024, industry […]
Virtual provider Equip announced that it is expanding its scope of care to treat adults with eating disorders. The San Diego-based provider got its start treating people with eating disorders under the age of 24. There is also a substantial need for eating disorder care in the adult population, however. Additional funding from General Catalyst, […]
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