In the two weeks after leaving incarceration, individuals are 40 times more likely to die from an opioid overdose than the general public. Yet, for years, there has been little attention paid to treating substance use disorders (SUD) in prisons and when individuals are reintroduced into society. But this could improve as providers team up […]
Editor’s note (Feb. 2, 2023): A majority of Resilience Lab clinicians voted in favor of unionization. The mail-in vote was counted by the National Labor Relations Board on Feb. 1. The clinicians will be represented in collective bargaining efforts by District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees. Unprecedented changes […]
After years of regulatory hurdles and societal stigma, psychedelic-assisted treatment for behavioral health conditions is coming into the spotlight. The growing popularity of psychedelics is due, in part, to promising research results and multiple states relaxing regulations. Now, 2023 could be a banner year for the treatment. Psychedelic legalization is going into effect in the […]
2023 is set to be a year of transition for behavioral health, as the COVID-era public health emergency (PHE) comes to an end and economic headwinds impact the global economy. Companies that took advantage of the PHE’s relaxed regulations will finally get some answers to looming questions about their business model as the federal government […]
Venture capital firms the past few years have pumped billions of dollars into behavioral health companies, recognizing the vast need for their services and untapped opportunities to consolidate a fragmented market. Among the most active VC investors has been General Catalyst, which boasts a portfolio of more than a dozen behavioral health-focused companies, from Eleanor […]
The $1.66 trillion omnibus funding bill touches nearly every aspect of the behavioral health industry. Advocates in the space weren’t shy about praising the bill even though it didn’t include some long-sought reforms. A quick tally of funding for the most germane items finds that the federal government is putting at least $10 billion into […]
The year 2022 saw several growing pains and tough lessons in the behavioral health industry. Two years after the onset of a world-altering pandemic, the behavioral health industry saw adjustments and reactions to a lot of new developments. The industry did so while grappling with several of its chronic headaches such as workforce shortages and […]
Reaching patients with serious mental illness (SMI) has traditionally been a challenge for the medical community. In fact, only 64.5% of patients with SMI received mental health treatment in the past year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). One of the biggest hurdles for the medical community at large is gaining the […]
The Biden administration could mix up how behavioral health operators address worker classification. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) said in October it would undo Trump-era classification rules that made it easier to classify workers as contractors. This bolstered the gig economy and placed an emphasis on how much control the employer had over the […]
Changes to Medicaid in 2022 repositioned behavioral health’s relevance to the program — and its importance to the behavioral health industry. Medicaid is the single-largest payer of mental health services in the nation. And changes to the public health plan for vulnerable populations may further alter the business landscape, industry insiders believe. Medicaid, a collaboration […]
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