Nearly one million adults aged 65 and older reported a substance use disorder (SUD) in 2018, according to a survey conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Special attention is required for seniors, age 65 and older when it comes to the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders (SUD). If […]
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Certified peer support specialists are quickly becoming an essential part of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment in the United States. Having gone through the recovery process successfully, peer support workers are driven to help others facing similar hardships in their lives. Addiction rehabilitation centers are now relying more on that connection and experience to create […]
The newly released fourth edition criteria from the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) has a renewed focus on holistic and patient-centered care for treating substance use disorders (SUD). Some of the main topics included a focus on chronic care treatment, integrated care, treating co-occurring conditions, recovery support services and harm reduction models. ASAM is […]
Substance use disorder providers caring for underserved populations could get a new boost in funding. Opioid manufacturers, distributors and other entities involved with the opioid epidemic will pay $56 billion over the next 10 to 20 years for their role in the crisis. That’s broken into several different settlement agreements, the largest being the $26 […]
The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation launched a new business-to-business digital substance use disorder (SUD) service, expanding the traditionally facility-based organization’s digital services. Titled “Workplace Solutions,” the product provides four main services for employers. Three of its services are digital content and tools; the other service is a “centers of excellence” value-based care bundle of services. […]
Higher acuity patients, behavioral health parity and prescribing uncertainty will continue to define addiction treatment in 2022 and beyond. That’s according to several operators queried by Behavioral Health Business. As the country begins to unwind from the several temporary measures prompted by the public health emergency (PHE), the addiction treatment space will see a new […]
The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, one of the largest nonprofit addiction treatment systems in the nation, has tapped Paul Mueller as its next chief operating officer. Mueller comes to Hazelden Betty Ford with 30 years of experience in the behavioral health sector. Most recently, he served as the CEO at Rogers Behavioral Health, a psychiatric […]
More people are comfortable using telehealth as behavioral health services utilization has taken off from commercially-insured patients, according to one major health system. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), whose provider network encompasses 140 hospitals throughout Pennsylvania – as well as in parts of Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland – said its behavioral health volume […]
Recently announced changes to Medicare telebehavioral health coverage will impact the entire industry whether providers contract with the program or not. The move from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) marks an acceleration of telehealth on top of staking out a point-of-no-return for the industry’s progression toward digital adoption. CMS announced at the […]
The search to find Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s next chief medical officer has wrapped up, as the substance use disorder (SUD) treatment provider on Thursday announced Dr. Alta DeRoo as its new CMO. DeRoo is the first female CMO in the history of Center City, Minnesota-based Hazelden, which was founded in 1949. DeRoo has been […]