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Top 10 Behavioral Health Stories of 2022: How ABA Layoffs, Value-Based Care and Dealmaking Defined the Year
The year 2022 saw several growing pains and tough lessons in the behavioral health industry. Two years after the onset of a world-altering pandemic, the behavioral health industry saw adjustments and reactions to a lot of new developments. The industry did so while grappling with several of its chronic headaches such as workforce shortages and payer-reimbursement challenges. Among the new issues in 2022, venture capital-backed tech’s “move fast and break things” ethos collided with behavioral health’s do-no-harm approach. All the while, the newly empowered space — buoyed by $5.5 billion in 2021 — faced scrutiny from the public and from government officials as was the case for the startup Cerebral.…
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Autism digital health startups aim to disrupt amid ABA challenges
Elemy has faced scrutiny from media experiences regarding its monetary situation, which Yakubchyk disputes. The company has gone through 4 rounds of layoffs this yr, such as Friday. Yakubchyk did not specify the variety of layoffs but explained the positions didn’t align with its software-as-a-provider driven product. He claimed the business is shifting certain positions into automation and moving most of its clinicians into unbiased contractor arrangements to conserve money. A controversial ingredient of Elemy’s organization is the truth it almost exclusively utilizes board-qualified behavioral analysts more than telehealth. Whilst utilizing them pretty much is unconventional strategy, it will come at time when there is a dearth of behavioral analysts.…