Specialty behavioral health practices will be incentivized to coordinate comprehensive health. The CMS Innovation Center will soon issue a Notice of Funding Opportunity for its new Innovation in ...

Behavioral health crises rarely manifest overnight. For health plans, the warning signs are hiding in plain sight – as data points scattered across disconnected systems, locked in outdated records, or ...

The CMS agency that tests value-based payment models hopes to announce two new models in behavioral health and maternal health later this year, according to Liz Fowler, director of the Center for ...

A new Apple-backed AI model trained on Apple Watch behavioral data can now predict a wide range of health conditions more accurately than traditional sensor-based approaches, according to a recently ...

At its core, public health communication is about connecting with people—not just delivering facts, but designing messages that reflect what people need, fear and value. What’s often overlooked is ...

April Health reports that the Collaborative Care Model effectively addresses the mental health gap in rural America by integrating behavioral health into primary care.

“For decades, health care providers and insurers split the mind and the body into two, and that division never made clinical sense,” Richard Snyder, M.D., the executive vice president and chief ...

Medicaid/CHIP surveillance demonstrated an 11.4% relative rise in pediatric diabetes prevalence, including a 24.3% increase in type 2 diabetes, with disparities by geography, sex, and region.

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...