‘There’s Not a Business Case’: Lack of Parity Hinders Transition to Value-Based Care

Value-based care and parity go hand-in-hand as the behavioral health industry continues to evolve beyond the fee-for-service paradigm. The interrelatedness of the two concepts often means that progress on one indirectly impacts the other. Moving toward either comes with several hurdles that require cash to fuel efforts to surmount them. Where things stand now, patients […]

Rapidly Growing Mental Health Practice Quince Orchard Psychotherapy Teams Up with PE Firm Graham Family Office

Private equity firm Graham Family Office has merged with outpatient behavioral health provider Quince Orchard Psychotherapy. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2015, the provider offers counseling, cognitive behavioral therapy, psychological assessments, play therapy, teletherapy, virtual group therapy and medication management. It cares for adults, adolescents, children, couples and families. Last […]

How Community, Infrastructure Supercharge Growth for Behavioral Health Companies

Community and partnerships are key to many of the fastest-growing behavioral health companies in the U.S. Four of the burgeoning mental health companies, as identified by the Inc. 5000, have seen growth that’s typically the purview of young startups and tech companies. These companies have taken advantage of the massive supply-demand imbalance present nationally and […]

What Traditional Behavioral Health Operators Can Teach Startups About Curbing Customer Acquisition Costs

A lot is riding on whether or not digital behavioral health operators will be able to solve the challenge of high customer acquisition costs. Last year, investors poured $5.5 billion of capital into digital operators’ coffers.  Yet high customer acquisition costs remain a largely unresolved concern that could limit digital behavioral health’s promise of speeding […]

Here Are 20+ of the Fastest-Growing Behavioral Health Companies in the U.S.

Outpatient mental health and autism treatment providers make up most of the behavioral health operators that appear on the latest Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest-growing companies. Seventeen of the 23 behavioral health operators featured on the list of the nation’s fastest-growing companies were outpatient mental health and autism treatment providers, according to a […]