This is an exclusive BHB+ article Over the last five years, intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) and partial hospitalization programs (PHPs) have proliferated nationwide to fill the gap between outpatient services and inpatient psychiatric care. Intermediate care providers have been a big hit with payers who are looking for ways to keep their members out of […]
Universal Health Care Services (NYSE:UHS) is fighting back after a Nevada jury slammed one of its subsidiaries with $500 million in punitive damages regarding allegations of improper interference with business relationships when doctors left one medical group to join another. The jury awarded UHS of Delaware and Pinnacle Management Group, Nevada, an additional $4.7 million […]
Universal Health Services’ (NYSE: UHS) behavioral health business faced headwinds in the first quarter of 2025 due to weather conditions in certain locations and a leap year, according to company leadership. Specifically, the provider said the inclement weather led to lower outpatient and adolescent-adjusted admission rates, which dropped 1.6% year over year. Company leadership noted […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story A rash of brutally negative press for some of the nation’s largest behavioral health providers may encourage the primarily nonprofit American hospital sector to look for potential partners that look like them — in other words, to be nonprofits. According to a handful of interviews and networking conversations I’ve […]
The merit of an integrated addiction treatment model is grounded in three key elements: the value to the patient, the value to the provider and the value to the payer. “If we could find value-added items that meet those three aims, then that’s a no-brainer,” Nick Stavros, CEO of the Scottsdale, Arizona-based outpatient medication-assisted treatment […]
The coronavirus pandemic and massive influx of capital into the industry over the past five years have put the behavioral health industry centerstage in the proverbial play that is American health care. But the spotlight eventually attracts the microscope. The industry has and will continue to face greater scrutiny, examination, criticism and challenges than ever […]
Medicaid redeterminations have begun to impact Universal Health Service’s (NYSE: UHS) behavioral health arm. Overall, behavioral health patient days were slightly lower in Q2 than expected, at a 1.4% increase compared to the second quarter of 2023. UHS CFO Steve Filton attributed the slow growth to staffing pressures, Medicaid redeterminations and some facility-specific issues. Filton […]
After years of facing criticism for wrongdoing and mistreatment of patients, the at-risk youth industry was blasted in a report released on Wednesday by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. The report and communications from the committee chairman, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), conclude that systemic harm and abuse are “routine” parts of the at-risk youth industry. […]
Universal Health Services (NYSE: UHS) plans to sell River Crest Hospital, a San Angelo, Texas-based facility, to Shannon Health System, a healthcare provider based in the same city. The parties did not disclose the terms of the deal. The move expands the nonprofit Shannon Health System’s behavioral health division. Presently, Shannon operates a 22-bed inpatient […]
All was relatively quiet on the behavioral health front for publicly traded companies in Q1, reflecting the typically sleepy nature of the first quarter for those seeking to wrap up old initiatives and start new ones. Don’t get me wrong: It’s not like nothing happened or there isn’t anything worth pondering. Quite the opposite, in […]
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