Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers. Before the holiday break, I wanted to quickly give everyone a brief update on some interesting recently...
Lawsuits Continue Against Insurance Companies for Refusing to Pay for Mental Health Care
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California Challenges HealthNet for Failing to Pay Addiction Treatment Programs
FierceHealthcare.com reported last Thursday, August 2nd, that, for the second time in just over a year, California regulators have warned the...
LegitScript Opens The Spigot & Congress Chimes In on Internet Marketing
One of our favorite reporters in this space, Behavioral Healthcare Executive’s Julie Miller, broke the news that LegitScript has released the first...
Reduction of Mental Healthcare Workforce Contrasts with Need
According to ModernHealthcare.com, the U.S. healthcare sector added 22,400 jobs in March, an improvement from February and roughly in line with its...
Will Addiction Treatment Be Eliminated from Obamacare Requirements?
The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a federal rule late Friday aimed at giving states more flexibility in...
Negative Press Causing Referrals to Florida to Come Into Question
The Portland Press Herald reported on July 19, 2017 in the article “Operation Hope stops sending clients out of New England for opioid addiction...
Affordable Care Act Means More Young People Getting Needed Behavioral Health Treatment (Time Magazine)
A provision in the health care reform law allowing parents to keep their adult children on their health-insurance plans has led to millions more...
How to Reconcile Integration with Anti-Kickback Laws and Market-Based Compensation
“Many hospitals are hiring and contracting with doctors to boost referrals and serve members in their coordinated-care networks. But how to pay...
Zoning – Cities Can’t Discriminate Against Providers
Once again (and again, and again), the NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) and the CAVEmen (Citizens Against Virtually Everything) pitchforks came out in...
Prompt Pay Laws
Many have been calling in recent days regarding insurance carriers refusing to pay for claims for treatment, essentially saying "sue us for your...