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Virginia mental health provider to settle Medicaid billing allegations for $1.8M
Negril, a mental health and disability care company, and its owners agreed to a $1,817,910.60 civil settlement over allegations of improperly billing Virginia Medicaid for mental health services. Federal officials alleged that Negril submitted claims for mental health skill-building services performed by a separate company…
Covenant Health taps behavioral health VP
Gabriela Barth joined Knoxville, Tenn.-based Covenant Health as vice president of behavioral health services. Ms. Barth most recently served as interim CEO with Franklin, Tenn.-based Acadia Healthcare, overseeing behavioral health hospital operations. She also completed the organization’s CEO-in-Training program, according to an Oct. 16 news…
Ketamine drugmakers seek FDA approval as providers raise concerns: 5 things to know
More than a dozen companies are racing to win FDA approval for ketamine-based mental health treatments. Providers warn that one company’s bid could sharply raise the cost of the generic drug, while most of the new products are designed to skip the talk therapy many…
MGB hospital to launch metabolic psychiatry center with $20M grant
Belmont, Mass.-based McLean Hospital, part of Mass General Brigham, plans to establish a metabolic psychiatry center backed by a $20 million grant from Baszucki Group, an organization founded by Roblox CEO David Baszucki and Jan Ellison Baszucki that funds research at the intersection of metabolism…
Online sports betting legalization tied to 6.73% rise in depression diagnoses among men
States that legalized online sports betting saw increases in antidepressant and anti-anxiety medication use, along with outpatient diagnoses of depression and anxiety, a study published Oct. 14 in JAMA Psychiatry found. Researchers at the Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health analyzed employer-sponsored health…
BayMark Completes Out-of-Court Debt Restructuring
Lewisville, Texas-based BayMark Health Services announced Monday that it completed its new-money recapitalization and a debt-for-equity exchange. The deal, revealed earlier in the year, marks a notable stumble among scaled, private equity-backed addiction treatment providers. And it was not alone in having its equity seized…
Boston Children’s leader heads to Rhode Island’s only pediatric psych hospital
East Providence, R.I.-based Bradley Hospital named Chase Samsel, MD, vice president and chief medical officer. Dr. Samsel, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and physician, will lead the hospital’s clinical programs and advance its mission to provide evidence-based pediatric behavioral healthcare, according to an Oct. 19…
From Hospital to Outpatient Care After Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotic Initiation in Bipolar Disorder: Nationwide Evidence From Taiwan
Original Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, all rights reserved. — Bipolar disorder (BD) is a recurrent, episodic illness. Long-term pharmacotherapy is central to relapse prevention, yet treatment nonadherence is common and clinically consequential, as it is consistently linked to higher risks of relapse, hospitalization, and…
How 4 health systems are tackling physician burnout
Physician burnout continues to decline nationwide, but hospitals and health systems are taking different approaches to addressing workplace stress, including changes to physician surveys, board oversight and clinician leadership training, according to a American Hospital Assocation report. The American Medical Association’s 2025 National Physician Comparison…
62 new behavioral health projects to know
From a 292-bed state-funded psychiatric hospital in Texas to New Mexico’s only children’s emergency psychiatric unit, hospitals and health systems are expanding behavioral health access as demand continues to grow. Here are 62 behavioral health projects to know: East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, Ala.,…
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health taps chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Medicine Children’s Health appointed Douglas Vanderbilt, MD, as chief of the division of developmental and behavioral pediatrics. Dr. Vanderbilt takes over from Heidi Feldman, MD, PhD, who served as the division’s founding chief and led the program for 19 years, according…
Washington autism therapy provider files Chapter 11
Spokane, Wash.-based Focused Behavior Solutions, an applied behavior analysis provider for children with autism, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Oct. 8 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Washington. The company is reorganizing under Subchapter V, a streamlined process for small businesses,…
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