J&J To Buy Psychiatric Drug Developer Intra-Cellular For $14.6 Billion
Johnson & Johnson and Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement under which Johnson & Johnson will acquire all outstanding shares of Intra-Cellular Therapies, which...
View ArticleUnited States v. South Carolina
On December 4, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice published this complaint against the state of South Carolina. The complaint alleges that the State fails to provide sufficient community-based...
View ArticleCalifornia Medicaid Section 1115 Behavioral Health Community-Based Organized...
On December 16, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published this approval of the California section 1115 project, entitled “Behavioral Health Community-Based Organized...
View ArticlePalm Beach County, Florida Commissioners Approve Funds For New Behavioral...
The Palm Beach County commissioners approved funding for the county Health Care District (district) to build a $60 million mental health and substance use crisis center. The county commissioners...
View ArticleNew PTSD Recovery Program Launches In Charleston, South Carolina
St. Timothy’s Anglican Catholic Church in Charleston, South Carolina is offering a free recovery program for people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The course, Deep Recovery Program, is...
View ArticlePeer Support Platform Fello Raises $10 Million
Fello, a new peer support platform, announced that it has raised $10.4 million. Its investors include 62Ventures, The Capital Factory Fellowship Fund, Katalyst Capital and Offline Ventures. The company...
View ArticleAI Evolution In Behavioral Healthcare: A Framework For Agency Transformation
On Demand Executive Briefing Courtesy of Qualifacts; The early phases of AI in behavioral healthcare saw the rise of standalone tools that are showing promise and have laid the groundwork... The post...
View ArticleCalifornia Medicaid BH-CONNECT Waiver Approved To Strengthen The Behavioral...
California’s new Section 1115 Behavioral Health Community-Based Organized Networks of Equitable Care and Treatment (BH-CONNECT) demonstration was approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
View ArticleAligning Technology Strategy With Overall Organizational Strategy: Technology...
This OPEN MINDS Executive Roundtable was delivered on January 16, 2025, by OPEN MINDS;Senior Associates Dee DeWitt and Rick Rowley. They discussed the challenges and opportunities CFOs face as they......
View ArticleMynd Immersive To Create Landmark VR Application For Vietnam Veterans’ Mental...
Mynd Immersive, a provider of extended reality (XR)-based, digital therapeutics, signed a three-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to...
View ArticleOhio Department Of Mental Health & Addiction Services Briefing About House...
On August 29, 2023, the Ohio Department Of Mental Health & Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) published this presentation regarding statutory changes made by House Bill 33 of 2023, the state's...
View ArticleEndeavor Health Awarded $2 Million DOJ Grant For Community Violence...
The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs awarded Endeavor Health a three-year grant valued at $2 million to develop and implement a community violence prevention and intervention...
View ArticleNorth Carolina 988 Helpline Helped More Nearly 122,000 In The Year Ending...
Between November 2023 and October 2024, the North Carolina 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline saw 121,795 contact instances. Calls were answered 98.0% of the time with an average to-answer time... The...
View ArticleIn Fiscal Year 2021, NAMI Reached 200% More People Through Family-To-Family...
In fiscal year 2021, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) doubled the number of Family-to-Family classes for family members who have an adult relative with a mental illness, reaching... The...
View ArticleWisconsin To Launch Housing Support Services Initiative For Medicaid...
On February 1, 2025, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) will launch a new Medicaid initiative to provide housing support services to adult Medicaid beneficiaries experiencing housing...
View ArticleKeeping Ahead Of The Crowd
How do provider organization executive teams keep their consumer (and payer) referrals in a crowded market? One way is to become a “trusted source” of health information. A recent look... The post...
View ArticleTennCare Awards $15 Million In Grants To 10 Psychiatric Hospitals To Bolster...
TennCare, Tennessee’s Medicaid program, awarded $15 million in grants to 10 psychiatric hospitals across the state. Each hospital will receive $1.5 million annually for two years to support...
View ArticleHealth Canada Approves Abilify LAI For Schizophrenia & Bipolar I Disorder
Otsuka Canada Pharmaceutical Inc. (Otsuka) and Lundbeck Canada Inc. (Lundbeck) announced that Health Canada issued a Notice of Compliance approving use of their long-acting injectable (LAI) formulation...
View ArticleAvel eCare Acquires Amwell Psychiatric Care To Expand Telemedicine Services
Avel eCare, which provides telehealth clinician-to-clinician consultation services, acquired Amwell Psychiatric Care (APC), a division of Amwell®. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition...
View ArticleIris Telehealth Acquires innovaTel Telepsychiatry Services From Quartet Health
Iris Telehealth, which provides behavioral health services for health systems and community health care organizations, acquired innovaTel, a division of Quartet Health. InnovaTel is provides...
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