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How To Leverage Data Analytics to Improve Suicide Risk Assessments

February 20, 2024 - Behavioral workforce shortages and access barriers to mental healthcare continue to drive the United States’ mental health crisis, leaving many at risk for adverse outcomes like suicide without the care they need. Health systems play a pivotal role in closing these gaps and improving outcomes, but preventing suicides remains a challenge. Kimberly Roaten, PhD, ABPP, Professor in...

How to Coordinate Mental Healthcare, Physical Care Amid High Demand

November 28, 2023 by Editorial Staff

The demand for mental health has increased significantly in the 2020s. Mental healthcare utilization grew 38.8 percent between 2019 and 2022 and spending on mental health jumped 53.7 percent in the...

Healthcare Leaders Reveal Concerns About Generative AI, Ransomware

September 06, 2023 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

Today’s top stories focus on leading cybersecurity concerns, new nursing home standards, and troubling findings about behavioral health access. Generative AI and Ransomware Top Cybersecurity...

Boosting Pediatric Mental Healthcare Through School-Based Telehealth

April 03, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

To address the growing youth mental health crisis, healthcare providers are enacting various strategies to extend access to behavioral healthcare. One such strategy is partnering with schools to set up...

Making Medicare Advantage Plans for the LGBTQ+ Community

December 12, 2022 by Kelsey Waddill

For generations, the LGBTQ+ community has faced discrimination in the healthcare system. Seniors in the LGBTQ+ community, in particular, have faced a lifetime of inequity and many now enter some of the...

How to Pursue Behavioral-Physical Healthcare Integration in a VBC Framework

September 26, 2022 by Kelsey Waddill

When MetNetOne Health Solutions established roaming physician teams that would go from practice to practice to help address chronic disease management needs around two decades ago, it became apparent...

Strategies to Mitigate the Rising Tide of Self-Medication in the US

January 31, 2022 by Anuja Vaidya

The stress, anxiety, and isolation that come with living through an ongoing pandemic has taken its toll on the mental health of Americans, resulting in a dual healthcare crisis. To cope, a staggering...

Overall Telehealth Use Decreases, But Telemental Care Increases

January 11, 2022 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

The pandemic continues to wear on the psyche, increasing stress, fatigue, and a general sense of malaise. But telehealth is removing obstacles to mental healthcare. Telehealth Use Dips Overall,...

Bill Seeks to Extend Telehealth Coverage, President Biden Nominates VA CIO

November 10, 2021 by Hayden Schmidt

This week, a bipartisan group of senators has introduced a bill that seeks to extend telehealth coverages that were introduced during the pandemic. The FDA has also recently approved a new treatment...

CMS Increases Rates Across the Board for FY2022; Part D Premiums Climb

August 04, 2021 by Emily Sokol, MPH

CMS final rules will increase rates for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and several other care settings while CMS also reports Part D premiums are expected to rise. Meanwhile, newly introduced...

Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug Under CMS, FDA Watch; EO Looks to Prescription Drug Spending

July 14, 2021 by Emily Sokol, MPH

CMS announced it will begin coverage determination investigations for the controversial Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm, while the drug’s approval process is also being investigated by the FDA....

How Payers Can Enable Behavioral, Physical Care Integration

May 10, 2021 by Kelsey Waddill

Brett Hart, chief behavioral health officer at Centene, and Indira Paharia, chief operating officer for behavioral health at Centene, are very familiar with the need for behavioral and physical...

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