Behavioral Health Business February 9, 2024
Residential eating disorder treatment facilities are becoming somewhat of an endangered species. Over the last few months, the industry has seen a string of closures.
Patients and payers have increasingly opted for virtual care models, shrinking the pool of patients residential treatment centers could serve in the first place. That pool was small to begin with and unevenly spread across the U.S. These major factors and the several challenges facing the whole of behavioral health make this slice of behavioral health an especially challenging environment to work in.
The latest and most high-profile closure came from Optum-owned Refresh Mental Health, one of the largest behavioral health companies in the nation, shuttering all of its several eating disorder treatment entities.
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