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The use of Telehealth, health related services distributed electronically, has exploded in popularity across the world of medicine following the 2019-2020 COVID-19 pandemic. [14] Remote health services have opened up a new dimension for healthcare providers to provide care to patients with efficiency and a wider range of accessibility.
A Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) is a type of health clinic in the United States that treats mental health and substance abuse disorders regardless of the patient's health insurance status and ability to pay for care. [1] [2] [3] CCBHCs are funded through Medicaid or SAMHSA grants. [2] [4]
Behavioral health providers in primary care settings have an opportunity to directly impact health care disparities by designing "…strategies to enhance cooperative or healthy behavior". [39] "The premise is that mismatches in models (i.e., expectations about illness and health interactions) between the patient and the health provider may ...
Your healthcare provider may also classify your insomnia as primary or secondary. Secondary insomnia happens due to a known medical, psychological, or environmental issue. Primary insomnia isn’t ...
Meridian Behavioral Health is a provider of behavioral health services in the Midwestern United States. [1] The company operates twenty Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) accredited substance use disorder (SUD) facilities in Minnesota providing residential and outpatient treatment for those suffering from a chemical ...
Carelon Behavioral Health, formerly known as Beacon Health Options, is a behavioral health company based in Boston, Massachusetts. On Jun. 6, 2019, Anthem, Inc. (now Elevance Health) announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Beacon Health Options. [1] The acquisition was completed on Mar. 2, 2020. [2]
A mental health professional is a health care practitioner or social and human services provider who offers services for the purpose of improving an individual's mental health or to treat mental disorders. This broad category was developed as a name for community personnel who worked in the new community mental health agencies begun in the ...
Behavioral medicine is concerned with the integration of knowledge in the biological, behavioral, psychological, and social sciences relevant to health and illness. These sciences include epidemiology , anthropology , sociology , psychology , physiology , pharmacology , nutrition , neuroanatomy , endocrinology , and immunology . [ 1 ]