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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.…