Behavioral Health Business May 25, 2023
Carelon Behavioral Health, the health care services arm of Elevance Health (NYSE: ELV) formerly known as Beacon Health Options, has opened its first brick-and-mortar clinic.
At an organizational-level, the opening reflects Carelon’s commitment to boosting access to behavioral health services while advancing whole-person health, according to Glenn MacFarlane, Carelon’s president and CEO. More broadly, the clinic’s launch is also emblematic of how health care consumers are starting to seek out more in-person services again.
“The origin of [the clinic] was a conversation that I had with one of our customers in the area, where they said that there’s just not enough choice in access for in-person services, in-person docs,” MacFarlane told Behavioral Health Business. “One of the things we’ve noticed...
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