Mental Health Services

The mental health market is defined as treatment services for mental and emotional health and psychiatric care for individuals of all ages. Mental health services are provided by a wide array of professionals, including certified counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, and social workers. The mental health market is facing new challenges – continued cost pressures on Medicare, Medicaid, and government programs; a shift to value-based care financing models; increased consolidation of health systems; and a push towards tech-enabled, consumer-led interventions. While these challenges may seem immense, the mental health market has experienced numerous shifts over the years from the move to managed care to increased community-based care. Organizations that can adapt to these changes are most likely to succeed.

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• Brightli & Centerstone Plan Merger To Form $1.1 Billion Behavioral Health Powerhouse Across Nine States
• Single-Dose Psilocybin Shows Lasting Mental Health Benefits For Those With Cancer 
• Pediatric Mental Health Hospitalizations Decline For First Time Since 2009 
• Building A Quality & Safety Infrastructure: The Harris Center Case Study
• Community Partners Acquires South Eastern New Hampshire Alcohol & Drug Abuse Services In Strafford County 
• Orchard Mental Health Group Acquires Maryland Counseling Associates 
• Wysa Partners With RxCap To Advance Medication Adherence 
• New York Cracks Down On ‘Ghost Networks’ With 10-Day Behavioral Health Access Standard 
• 3,300 Californians With Severe Mental Illness Diverted Into Treatment Through CARE Courts
• Johnson & Johnson Submits sNDA To FDA For Oral Caplyta® As Schizophrenia Relapse Prevention
• CARE Act Implementation Update July 2025
• Maryland Chapter 27 (House Bill 94 / Senate Bill 224) – Opioid-Associated Disease Prevention & Outreach Programs – Appeals & Membership Of Standing Advisory Committee
• California DHCS: The Community Assistance, Recovery & Empowerment (CARE) Act Annual Report
• Otsuka Launches Comprehensive Support Program For Families Of Japanese People With Severe Social Withdrawal 
• New York Regulation On Network Adequacy & Access Standards For Behavioral Health Services

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MOUD For Pregnant Women With OUD Associated With Higher Six-Month Treatment Retention Rates

For pregnant women in the U.S. with opioid use disorder (OUD), outpatient treatment episodes with medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) were associated with 86% higher odds of six-month treatment retention compared to treatment episodes without MOUD. A recent analysis of 2021 data determined that this translated to a 14.2 percentage point higher adjusted probability of six-month retention among treatment episodes with MOUD (43.1%) compared to those without it (28.9%). The cross-sectional study analyzed 29,981… Read

• Availability of Surveyed Behavioral Health Providers To Treat New Patients Enrolled In Medicare & Medicaid (OEI-09-21-00410)
• Florida Senate Bill 1620: Mental Health & Substance Use Disorders
• Iowa HHS Behavioral Health & Disability Services Systems County Official: Questions & Answers
• Florida Commission On Mental Health & Substance Use Disorder Annual Interim Report
• Nearly Half Of Behavioral Health Professionals Declining New Appointments For Medicare &Medicaid Beneficiaries