Behavioral Health Business February 23, 2024
The behavioral health industry continues its shift away from adolescent wilderness therapy programs as payers opt for other care models and the segment grapples with strong public backlash.
Chandler, Arizona-based Embark Behavioral Health becomes the latest in this trend as it shutters its wilderness therapy division. This comes as providers continue to move away from destination treatment offerings toward more accessible services.
Several powerful forces have motivated this shift. Not the least of which include parity allowing more local behavioral health offerings to come to market, payers focusing on less intensive treatments, and bad news about wilderness therapy programs becoming more prominent in mainstream discourse.
For example, a 12-year-old boy died at a wilderness therapy camp not affiliated with Embark...
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