On January 14, 2022, New Directions Behavioral Health (New Directions), a provider of comprehensive behavioral health solutions, acquired Tridiuum, a digital behavioral health company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Shana Hoffman will continue in her role as president and chief executive officer (CEO) for the combined company, and Mark Redlus, CEO of Tridiuum, will serve as the president of Tridiuum as part of New Directions. With the clinical performance and population analytics capabilities of Tridiuum’s digital platform, Tridiuum ONE®, New Directions anticipates maximizing member access to behavioral health providers and improving quality of care through measurement . . .

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Mergers & Acquisitions

2020 and 2021 saw record numbers of mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, and partnerships and this raises the strategic question for any executive team of a specialty provider organization, do they have market positioning for a sustainable future and can they address that issue with changes in scale. Almost every executive team is considering collaborations to keep their competitive advantage. It’s imperative to find out if those collaborations were successful in improving competitive advantage, as well as the “tricks of the trade” in making collaboration work.


Outpatient care, specialty services, and cost containment solutions are projected to drive merger and acquisition activity in the health care sector during 2026, according to a recent report by VMG Health. Increased deal volume is projected for physician practices, behavioral health, home-based care, and ambulatory surgery centers. Technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), is being used to strengthen diagnostics, automation, and workflow optimization, is emerging as a differentiator in health care mergers and acquisitions, particularly in… Read