By moving beyond subjective and heterogeneous criteria and embracing objective brain function measures, the field of psychiatry can achieve greater precision and efficacy in addressing complex disorders.
Through a new partnership, employees of BetterHelp’s employer clients can access Talkiatry’s psychiatry services on an in-network basis at no extra cost.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
A Health Affairs study discovered that nearly two-thirds of Medicare Advantage psychiatrist networks, or 64.6%, were narrow in 2019. Comparatively, about 43.1% of Medicaid managed care networks were narrow and 39.5% of ACA Marketplaces were narrow.
Talkiatry is now available to Horizon Healthcare Services’ commercial members at no additional cost, giving 3.6 million people access to the virtual mental health services. The company treats patients ages 5 years and older for conditions including anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder.
A California law signed Oct. 8 by Gov. Gavin Newsom requires that mental health and substance abuse patients be offered return appointments no more than 10 days after a previous session, unless their provider OKs less frequent visits.
Access to mental healthcare continues to be a hurdle amid the Covid-19 pandemic, prompting Aetna and telehealth provider Inpathy to expand their existing mental health partnership to include three more states.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
The company said the decision to cancel the advisory committee meeting for lumateperone was made so the agency would have additional time to review information the firm had provided regarding the drug.
Nuplazid, which is FDA-approved for Parkinson's psychosis, failed to fully improve symptoms as an adjunctive treatment for schizophrenia.
The company's shares fell more than 20 percent Monday on data from the trials of lumateperone, but an analyst wrote that the reason for the high placebo response rate that led to one trial's failure remains unclear.
Interest and investment in the online therapy space has been ramping up as the technology has been positioned as a lever to address the larger issue of expanding access to behavioral health resources.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
An analyst said the news could negatively affect shares of a successor to the company that developed rapastinel - which Allergan bought in 2015 - given that its drugs belong to the same class.
Talkspace's first chief medical officer Neil Leibowitz talked about the online therapy providers' ambitions to move into psychiatry by the end of the year.
With the deal, purchaser Genoa, a QoL Healthcare Company, has launched a new telemedicine division, Genoa Telepsychiatry.
More complex understandings about the connection between brain activity and emotional responses could lead to better mental healthcare.
Wearables are starting to pop up everywhere in medicine — except, perhaps, actual clinical settings. Even a staid organization like the American Psychiatric Association had some on hand at its 168th annual meeting this week, as this video illustrates.