SUD Providers Using Bundled-Payment Approach to Leverage Peer Support Models

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 […]

ASAM Issues New Guidance Prioritizing Patient-Focused Addiction Treatment

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 […]

What the $56B Opioid Settlement Means for Substance Use Disorder Providers

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 […]

Hazelden Goes Digital with New B2B Services After COVID Changes Workplace Dynamic

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. […]

The Trends Defining the ‘New World Order’ of Addiction Treatment in 2022 and Beyond

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 […]

UPMC Sees Virtual Behavioral Health Surge from Patients With Commercial Insurance, Sees Opportunity for MAT Services

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 […]

Medicare’s Telehealth Decision Will Lead to Sweeping Changes for All of Behavioral Health

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 […]

Hazelden Betty Ford Names New Chief Medical Officer

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 […]