A New Mexico afterschool program used minors’ Social Security numbers, invented psychological diagnoses, and billed Medicaid $6.6 million. The mother-daughter operators drew 4½-year sentences. Here is what behavioral health operators must tighten in intake, credentialing, and diagnosis substantiation to avoid the same trap.
Aliya Health Group’s recent layoffs and site closures follow a familiar arc in PE-backed behavioral health: new leadership, hard look at unit economics, footprint reset. Here’s what triggers these moments and how operators stress-test before crisis hits.
The Joint Commission’s Behavioral Health Care and Human Services manual is not a binder you read once. It is the operating spine surveyors will use against you. Here is what AHS sees go wrong, and what holds up under scrutiny.
CARF accreditation for behavioral health is more than a plaque on the wall. It is a survey of how your program actually runs. Here is what AHS sees cited in real surveys, and what regulators do with the findings afterward.
Behavioral health organizations rarely fail at electronic medical record adoption because of the software itself. They fail because implementation is treated as a technical install rather than an operational transformation. EMR platforms such as Kipu and Ritten are powerful, configurable…
