Anthem Inc. will be acquiring Beacon Health Options, a behavioral health management company serving beneficiaries in all 50 states.
The acquisition marks Anthem’s commitment to addressing...
UnitedHealth Group’s Optum is going to make the telemental health app Talkspace available to its 2 million customers.
In an announcement following the closing of its most recent funding round,...
Seventy percent of employers are either currently addressing or plan to address behavioral health over the next few years, according to a recent survey from Willis Towers Watson, but many of these...
A federal court has found that United Behavioral Health (UBH), a unit owned by UnitedHealth Group, used a flawed methodology to deny mental health and substance abuse treatment services to...
Primary care providers (PCPs) and psychiatrists are among the least likely professionals to accept Medicaid, leaving patients without some of the most fundamental resources for preventing or managing...
Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced the launch of a comprehensive, universal healthcare coverage plan that will guarantee benefits for every New Yorker.
“Healthcare is a right, not a privilege...
The National Business Group on Health has released its top-five trends for the coming year, and employers clearly want to play a more involved role in healthcare transformation.
Chief among their...
Kaiser is making a five-year, $6-million investment in community health, the health system and payer announced earlier this week.
Kaiser Permanente Southern California’s Community Mental Health...
Speaking at the Hatch Foundation for Civility and Solutions in Washington, DC, early this month, Azar pointed to social determinants of health as “the root cause of so much of our health...
Medicaid beneficiaries with mental health conditions are the targets of recent CMS efforts to boost health outcomes.
In recent remarks to the National Association of Medicaid Directors in the national...
Medicaid beneficiaries with serious mental illness (SMI) or serious emotional disturbance (SED) are the targets of recent CMS efforts to improve health outcomes.
In a letter to Medicaid directors...
The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and the American Medical Association (AMA) have announced plans to promote an alternative payment model to address opioid use disorder.
Leaders at...
Kaiser Permanente’s health plan does not adequately ensure that patients can access behavioral health services in a timely and effective manner, says the California Department of Managed Health...
