9+ hour, 21+ min ago  (284+ words) Burak The Weekender via pexels. com Universal Health Services" (NYSE: UHS) $835 million acquisition of virtual provider Talkspace (Nasdaq: TALK) is key to the company"s outpatient growth strategy. "In addition to the pitch that the two entities will serve as…...

9+ hour, 49+ min ago  (230+ words) Anna Shvets via pexels. com Laurel Ridge Treatment Center, a Universal Health Services (NYSE: UHS) facility in San Antonio, Texas, will lay off 648 employees effective June 26. Laurel Ridge Treatment Center filed a civil complaint in response on April 23 in the…...

9+ hour, 25+ min ago  (1158+ words) A bellwether lawsuit recently found tech giants like Meta and You Tube liable for platform and design features that perpetuated what has been described as "social media addiction." While the term was used as a descriptor throughout the case, social…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (923+ words) Utah Capitol Preservation Board Legion Health will be one of the first health care providers to automate psychotropic medication refills " with state government approval " in the near future." The digital psychiatric practice and AI startup has a regulatory mitigation agreement…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (314+ words) Opioid use disorder (OUD) diagnosis among Medicaid beneficiaries is on the decline, while medication for the condition is on the rise in recent years. "A cross-sectional study published in JAMA evaluated the trends in OUD treatment from 2018 to 2023. Researchers found…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (580+ words) A court-approved settlement agreement between Landmark Recovery and Sabra Health Care REIT (Nasdaq: SBRA) will see the two entities part ways after a years-long partnership. The engagement between the addiction treatment provider and the real estate investment trust (REIT) helped…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (638+ words) Employees at Rogers Behavioral Health in the nonprofit provider's home state of Wisconsin approved unionization in an April 22 vote. Sixty-three employees at Rogers Behavioral Health's West Allis Behavioral Health Treatment Center and 33 employees at its Madison Behavioral Health Treatment Center…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago  (941+ words) You've likely heard it before: a solid tech infrastructure is the foundation of nearly everything in behavioral health " value-based care, primary care integration, outcome measurement and beyond. Yet, in many ways, behavioral health is lagging behind the rest of health…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (205+ words) Six months after naming Todd Young as its chief financial officer, Acadia Healthcare (Nasdaq: ACHC) announced he will depart. David Duckworth will return to the helm as its interim CFO beginning May 1. Young, who joined Acadia from his CFO role…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (488+ words) Sarah Stierch via commons. wikimedia. org | CC BY 4. 0 The U. S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will soon begin a push for states to initiate provider revalidation in "high-risk areas." Speaking at Politico's Health Care Summit, CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz…...