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January 28, 2020
Caravel Autism Health on Tuesday announced it is opening four autism treatment centers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul/southern Minnesota region. Locations in White Bear Lake, Woodbury and Plymouth will open over the next three months. A location in Mankato opened this week, becoming the company’s…
January 28, 2020
Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based health IT firm, has agreed to pay $145 million to resolve criminal and civil investigations, and admit that it solicited and received kickbacks from a major opioid company in exchange for using its EHR software to influence physician prescribing of opioid pain…
January 27, 2020
The Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Learning Network (PBHLN) and Gloo, a technology platform provider for organizations that champion personal growth, are partnering to create a virtual center of excellence aimed at improving patient outcomes among the nation’s mental health treatment and…
January 24, 2020
Researchers at University of Florida Health have collaborated with the Health Services Advisory Group on a quality measure to help the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to evaluate psychiatric hospitals nationwide.
January 23, 2020
A pair of industry groups in New York are teaming up to boost their respective addiction treatment and behavioral health advocacy efforts.
January 23, 2020
Therapists are aware of the endless hours spent acquiring the skills associated with clinical models like cognitive behavioral therapy or psychodynamic therapy. As anyone trained in both models will tell you, they are very different clinical approaches. Yet decades of psychotherapy research have…
January 23, 2020
Buena Vista Health Recovery this week is unveiling Buena Vista Health and Recovery Centers at Tucson, a 50,000-square-foot drug and alcohol detox and treatment campus. It will begin accepting outpatient patients next month.
Treatment services to be offered on the campus include: medically…
January 22, 2020
Summit BHC on Wednesday announced that it has acquired Peak View Behavioral Health, a 112-bed acute psychiatric and behavioral health hospital in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Peak View, which opened in 2009, becomes Summit’s first facility in Colorado. Summit, which is based in Franklin, Tennessee…
January 22, 2020
Five people in California were arrested last week on charges that they participated in a $3.2 million sober home fraud scheme, according to a report published in the Orange County Register.
The following five individuals have been charged with multiple felony counts, including insurance fraud and…
January 21, 2020
Merger and acquisition activity for the behavioral healthcare sector in the fourth quarter of 2019 was down compared to both the previous quarter, as well as the same period in 2018, according to a report published this week by Healthcare M&A Report.
For the final quarter of 2019, 15…