LifeStance Health Group (Nasdaq: LFST) reported its second profitable quarter as a public company in the third quarter of 2025. Executives for the hybrid in-person and telehealth outpatient mental health company said the profitable turn was driven by the realization of clinician productivity improvements, tamping down general and administrative expenses and top-flight net growth in […]
Blair Brown, Executive Clinical Director, Clinical Quality at LifeStance Health, has been named a 2025 Future Leader by Behavioral Health Business. To become a Future Leader, an individual is nominated by their peers. The candidate must be a high-performing employee who is 40 years of age or younger, a passionate worker who knows how to […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story Maternal mental health and well-being have been on the clinical back burner for years. That is compounded by the U.S. having some of the worst maternal mortality rates and poor maternal health outcomes of any industrially developed nation. Against this backdrop, practitioners increasingly say maternal mental health should be […]
MK Clarkin, Executive Clinical Director – South/West Division at LifeStance Health, has been named a 2025 Future Leader by Behavioral Health Business. To become a Future Leader, an individual is nominated by their peers. The candidate must be a high-performing employee who is 40 years of age or younger, a passionate worker who knows how […]
While it didn’t carry out any dealmaking in the first half of the year, LifeStance (Nasdaq: LFST) is actively eyeing several acquisition opportunities and tuck-in deals to position itself for expansion, executives said Thursday. That might mean entering a new metropolitan service area (MSA) or a new state, LifeStance CEO Dave Bourdon said during the […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story Outpatient mental health providers increasingly see transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) as a potential answer to helping patients with treatment-resistant depression find relief. But the path to including this type of intervention in the context of existing therapy and psychiatry offerings is a winding and not-terribly-well-trodden path. A growing body […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story The days of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) being affiliated primarily with veterans are long gone. More Americans – particularly college-age individuals – are receiving the diagnosis, driving up demand for services. Though providers have seen an increase in PTSD diagnoses across all patient populations. “Even though we have traditionally […]
LifeStance Health (Nasdaq: LFST) has and will continue to see its administrative expenses remain relatively high as it invests in initiatives and systems, previously deprioritized during its rapid expansion through a flurry of mergers and acquisitions, which enabled it to become one of the largest providers of outpatient mental health services in the U.S. Top […]
There is an eagerness across the behavioral health industry to transition from fee-for-service into value-based contracts. But, at times, this urgency can actually be a hindrance instead of a help, industry insiders recently explained at the Behavioral Health Business VALUE conference. Crafting value-based care infrastructure, understanding how and what to measure and defining the mechanisms […]
Guidelight Health promotes chief operating officer to lead as CEO Guidelight has tapped Stephen Bewley as its new CEO. Bewley initially joined Guidelight Health in February as chief operating officer. He will replace Andrew Hayek, who served as the company’s interim CEO. Before joining Guidelight, Bewley served as the chief operating officer at InStride Health, […]
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