Talkspace To Make Long-Held Medicare Expansion a Reality in 2024

Talkspace Inc. (Nasdaq: TALK) continues to push into new payer partnerships and new patient populations by announcing that it will serve traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage members. The move marks yet another level of progression in the New York City-based tele-mental health company’s evolution into a company that generates business by working with enterprises that […]

Lifestance CEO Doesn’t See Digital Mental Health Providers as Competitors

Lifestance Health Group Inc. CEO and Founder Michael Lester doesn’t see the many digital mental health providers that have flooded into the market as competitors for patients or for staff.   That’s because Lifestance (NASDAQ: LFST) does what many in the ever-growing crowd of venture capital-backed digital mental health companies don’t. “We don’t see the pure-play […]

UHS Can’t Beat Behavioral Health Staffing Shortage Even When Willing to Pay Premium

Universal Health Services Inc. struggled to staff up its behavioral health business despite being willing to pay a premium as it grapples with the national health care staffing shortage. However, the King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based acute care and behavioral health company simply can’t find enough workers to fully staff up to meet the demand that […]

Magellan Health to Help Centene Drive Integration of Behavioral and Physical Health Says Exec

Centene Corp. expects to drive greater integration of behavioral health and physical health now that it has Magellan Health under its control. Sarah London — board vice chair and president of health care enterprises for the St. Louis-based company — said in prepared remarks at a session of the 2022 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference that […]