by Jordana Choucair | Sep 22, 2022 | Mental Health
The Senate Finance committee released new draft legislation to address the mental health workforce shortage. The legislation seeks to add 400 new Medicare graduate medical education psychiatry slots a year for the next 10 years, offering a total of 4,000 additional...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 21, 2022 | M&A
Walgreens Boots Alliance announced it will buy the remaining stake in specialty pharmacy company Shields Health Solutions for approximately $1.37 billion. Walgreens last year spent $970 million to increase its stake in the company to 71 percent, with the possibility...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 21, 2022 | Mental Health
A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found almost 1 in 10 Americans reported suffering from depression in 2020. Researchers from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and City University of New York found that over the past...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 21, 2022 | Mental Health
The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) reported that spending on addiction and mental health rose from 6.8 percent of total health care costs in 2013 to 8.2 percent in 2020. Employers and workers spent about $77 billion on mental health and substance use...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 21, 2022 | Mental Health
The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) for the first time recommended that all adults under age 65 be regularly screened for anxiety. The recommendation applies to adults aged 19 and older, including pregnant and postpartum people, who do not have a...
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