The challenge is ensuring plan members have a direct connection to behavioral healthcare, says Shana Hoffman, CEO of Lucet.  

North Alabama Shoals Hospital in Muscle Shoals will be expanding on its behavioral health capabilities with an initiative that includes building a new 16-bed adolescent psychiatry unit and adding eight adult psychiatric beds, the hospital announced.

VillageMD CEO Tim Barry has stepped down and Chief Operating Officer Jim Murray has been appointed to serve as interim CEO. The move is “effective immediately,” according to VillageMD spokesperson Molly Lynch, according to the Chicago Tribune. No reason was given for Barry’s departure.

Former pharmacy owner Aftab Hussain has been sentenced to two to six years in prison for allegedly stealing more than $11.5 million dollars through a Medicaid fraud scheme that targeted low-income HIV patients who needed life-saving medications,