Wednesday, August 10, 2022: Mental Health

Amazon.com Inc. is planning to add behavioral health support to its array of medical offerings via a partnership with mental health service provider Ginger. As part of the partnership, the companies will share patient information and provide on-demand access to mental...

Monday, August 8, 2022: Mental Health

The Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council (CBHC) will hold its 2022 conference in Breckenridge, CO from September 21-24. Join CBHC for numerous interactive sessions, including a “fireside chat” with Dr. Morgan Medlock, Colorado’s first Behavioral Health Commissioner,...

Tuesday, July 12, 2022: Mental Health

A Wall Street Journal analysis of calls to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Lifeline) between 2016 and 2021 found that one in six ended without reaching a counselor. One-and-a-half million of the 9.2 million calls placed ended either because the caller...

Wednesday, June 29, 2022: Mental Health

The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) released a new brief exploring the latest national data on mental health and substance use trends among adolescents. According to the brief, deaths due to drug overdose among adolescents nearly doubled from 2019 (282 deaths) to 2020...

Wednesday, June 29, 2022: Payers

Government watchdogs told a House panel that Congress should crack down on the Medicare Advantage program, saying the private health plans for seniors sometimes deny access to needed medical care and inflate charges by billions of dollars. The watchdogs said lawmakers...

Thursday, June 23, 2022: Mental Health

The House voted 402-20 to pass a bipartisan package that seeks to address mental health and substance use disorder (SUD). The Restoring Hope for Mental Health and Well-Being Act would allocate $5 million a year to a new a Behavioral Health Crisis Coordinating Office...