Behavioral Health Business May 30, 2024
Integrating service lines is a crucial priority for behavioral health provider Acadia Healthcare (Nasdaq: ACHC).
Acadia is the largest behavioral health provider in the country and offers inpatient and outpatient mental health care, substance use disorder services, eating disorder care and various other offerings.
Acadia CEO Chris Hunter noted that patients in their care often have comorbid conditions and could benefit from other services.
“I think we’ve been very intentional around cross-selling. We know that somebody that comes to one of our specialty facilities and admits, 70% of the time, will also have an underlying [opioid use disorder] OUD diagnosis,” Hunter said at the Leerink Partners Healthcare Crossroads Conference on Wednesday. “That interplay between the lines of business is something...