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27 stories from Behavioral Health Business · Clear
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took an important step last month when it released a new toolkit for states on applied behavior analysis, or ABA, services for people with autism. The need for greater scrutiny is clear. Medicaid and CHIP spending on ABA has grow…
This is an exclusive BHB+ article. 2026 hasn’t been a standout year for behavioral health deal volume, but it has produced some of the most interesting transactions in recent years. The digital health sector is finally starting to make headlines with major transactions. From Spr…
The final deadline for the 2026 Aspect Marketing & Advertising Awards is Saturday, October 31, 2026 at 11:59pm CDT. The Aspect Marketing & Advertising Awards recognize outstanding creativity, innovation, and impact in marketing and advertising campaigns across the healthcare, pos…
This is an exclusive BHB+ story. Employee assistance programs were once table stakes in workplace benefits packages in the early 2000s, but widespread availability has consistently outpaced useage. In 2026, only 4-5% of employees used EAPs at most companies. A standard EAP offeri…
Houston, Texas-based PsychPlus has acquired Precision Psychiatric Services Inc. The move adds more than 100 psychiatrists to PsychPlus’ growing national practice, which focuses on partnerships with hospitals and other facilities. The company partners with over 200 hospital system…
This is an exclusive BHB+ story. Sober living facilities are critical pieces of the addiction treatment care continuum, where demand often outpaces supply. Yet, they are more commonly at the center of fraud investigations than other areas of treatment and are much harder to regul…
Unlike most of healthcare, behavioral health is not an episodic business. Most of healthcare produces revenue in discrete intervals. A cardiologist’s revenue is produced in bounded events: the catheter threaded, the stent placed, the echocardiogram read and reported. Cost follows…
Dealmaking across the behavioral health industry continues to face challenges. However, no single thing explains the relative disquiet in behavioral health dealmaking. Several industry sources are also looking at the dealmaking environment and seeing its underlying strengths and…
U.S. Department of Justice officials in the Central District of California have charged a father-son duo in what officials say is the largest substance abuse treatment fraud scheme in U.S. prosecution history, which encompasses $1.6 billion in alleged false claims. David and Nath…
This is an exclusive BHB+ article. Outpatient mental health services have been the investor darling for nearly a decade. And I don’t see that trend necessarily changing any time soon. Still, it’s a competitive, crowded environment and a slew of established market leaders already…
Revelstoke-backed Family Care Center announced it closed a minority equity sale led by Apogem Capital and additional investors. The provider said the new funds will support its growth and community-based model. The outpatient behavioral health provider has 50 locations across fi…
This is an exclusive BHB+ story. In 1969, the term “psychedelics” conjured images of San Francisco’s historic Hippie Hill, the Grateful Dead and Woodstock. Close to 60 years later, that stigma lingers despite a multitude of advancements and research showcasing the drug class’s po…
This is an exclusive BHB+ story. Many adult seniors have been locked out of accessing residential addiction treatment for the sector’s entire history. Still, around 1 in 15 adults over the age of 65 have had a substance use disorder in the past year. Despite decades of advances i…
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…
Therapist enablement platform Headway is once again facing backlash from its clinician pool on its platform over a lengthy new contract the company rolled out last Thursday asking them to sign and agree to several new terms with a deadline. However, Headway quickly reversed its d…
The autism therapy industry will likely have to justify itself at every turn when it comes to hour-intensive treatment plans as states digest the Applied Behavior Analysis Toolkit released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in August. The 173-page toolkit com…
It has been a little over two weeks since Sword Health’s acquisition of the San Francisco-based digital therapy and psychiatry company Headspace officialy closed and now the combined entity has started to roll out post-transaction layoffs. Public documents filed by Sword Health a…
Newport Healthcare’s CEO office is turning over at the same time it institutes additional layoffs and facility closures to again shrink its national footprint. This is the third such action in the past year or so. Brian Setzer, who became CEO on Dec. 9, 2024, will be replaced by…
Focused Behavior Solutions, an applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy provider based in Walla Walla, Washington, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to court documents. The filing documents cited delayed reimbursement payments and high-cost debt as two factors contrib…
To sell or not to sell, that is the question facing private equity and behavioral health operators today. Timing the market has rarely felt this complicated. On one hand, it’s hard to turn on the news without hearing about today’s inflationary pressures on consumers, and capital…
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin-based nonprofit Rogers Behavioral Health has raised more than $83.3 million in municipal bonds to fuel a multisite expansion plan and refinance old debt. About $35 million will go to its capital projects, while $46 million will refund existing bonds, accordi…
Join leading names in the autism therapy industry at Autism Investor Summit East in Washington, D.C., Nov. 9–10. Featured speakers will include Alisha Simpson-Watt, founder of Collaborative ABA Services, and Elizabeth Broomfield, managing partner of Aquitaine Capital, who are quo…
Allswell, a virtual behavioral health provider specializing in LGBTQ+ care, has announced a $7 million seed round led by ReThink Impact. With $1.3 million raised in an earlier pre-seed fundraise, Allswell now has a total capital runway of $8.3 million to expand into new territori…
Merakey names new CSO, CGO In August, national behavioral health and human support services provider Merakey named two new leaders to its C-suite. Jennifer Rhia is now Merakey’s chief strategy officer, a role that she held at I Am Boundless, an organization that merged with Merak…
As pressures on behavioral healthcare organizations mount, operational complexity compounds with it. With added payer scrutiny, increased regulation and persistent workforce issues, the need to ensure operational compliance and efficiency has never been greater. As healthcare lea…
Brellium, a healthcare billing compliance software provider serving mental health and autism providers, has raised $23 million. The investment firms Left Lane Capital and First Round Capital led the round. Digital Health Venture Partners also joined the funding round. The new cas…
R&S Holdings, a behavioral health organization that offers addiction treatment and behavioral health services through its subsidiaries, has added a new organization to its network: Innovo Detox. Annapolis, Maryland-based R&S Holdings currently operates more than 35 inpatient and…
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