517 parents who have children on the spectrum are not shy – about 75% in our poll say the best place to get their kids services quickly and cost effectively has no doubt been the northeast and mid Atlantic, including Pennsylvania, but by the time their kids roll through their teens and hit adulthood, the geography changes.

It was classic Bunker, worried, agitated and usually offensive. I wonder what he’d make of all the changes in healthcare – urgent care clinics, for one, are more often than not staffed by allied health providers.

Former American Idol contestant Antonella Barba has been sentenced to 45 months in federal prison for possessing and planning to distribute fentanyl, according to a court report.

Even as Mental Health First Aide training sweeps the nation to help moms, dads, teachers and youngsters spot the signs of depression, there remains a shortage of treatment options. Telepsych has helped, but has mostly gained a footprint in the commercial population. So insurers responsible for Medicaid patients are trying to respond with other ideas.

26-year-olds coming out of residency are getting less predictable. Interest in traveling positions that plug in the doctor for 1-3 month stints in interesting and oft times ‘vacation-like’ destinations are increasingly popular, despite prior year demand for security and limited hours in a hospital or academic environment.

So I put my Hoosier roots aside for a half hour and sat down in September with Purdue Boilermaker Sean Duddy for a conversation about managed care, behavioral health, contracting, refugees, and autism. Basically the full spectrum!

A federal judge ruled that United Behavioral Health created faulty medical review criteria that wrongly rejected the insurance claims of more than 50,000 people pursuing mental health and substance use disorder treatment. Due to the stigma of mental illness being not as vital as a broken arm or leg, health insurers haven’t provided as much coverage as needed historically.

February 2019--A mental health emergency center recently opened up in Nashville this month and is already at capacity sparking some questions about its designation and role in triage but more broadly about its value and need to expand. The Cooperative will see any patient but unlike traditional ERs the Cooperative currently only accepts Tennessee Medicaid insurance and even though there is no waitlist and average stays are 1-3 days, they don’t know when there will be room for more patients, according to Adam Graham, who is the program's director of emergency services.

Wait times for seeing psychiatrists or psychologists average 2-4 months, according to our poll 231 school counselors, PCPs, and hospital discharge planners in Iowa, but there is hope in a new program out of Broadlawns Medical Center.

49% of schools in our December poll of middle school principals said their schedules are changing so much so that they are starting to look more like health and wellness centers than academic institutions.

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