Behavioral Healthcare Executive Podcast

Ali Beheshti, founder and CEO of the behavioral health billing solutions firm Zealie, joins the BHE Podcast to discuss his path from being a treatment center CEO to launching a behavioral health billing firm. Beheshti explains how his experiences running a treatment center helped to shape his vision for Zealie, the pain points his clients currently face, and where he sees the industry going in 202...

After 25 years as CEO of Caron Treatment Centers, Doug Tieman announced recently that he plans to retire in June 2021. As he sketches out his next chapter, Tieman joins the BHE Podcast to share thoughts on how his own recovery has shaped his leadership style and management at Caron, why not-for-profits have to balance their mission with their margins, the evolution of measuring treatment outcomes,...

Gloo Executive Director Steve Millette joins the BHE Podcast to discuss his organization’s partnership with the Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Learning Network to create the Collaborative Advancement of Recovery Excellence (psychcongress.com/coe/recovery-research), a recovery research-focused resource, and a weekly Director Poll that provides behavioral healthcare leaders with insights on how thei...

Deni Carise, PhD, chief science officer at Recovery Centers of America, joins the BHE Podcast to discuss the shift toward value-based and recovery-oriented care, and the importance of developing standard measures of both outcomes and performance during treatment. Carise also shares data on how executives in the field feel about their organizations’ financial positions in light of COVID-19, as well...

Pear Therapeutics president and CEO Corey McCann, MD, PhD, joins the BHE Podcast to discuss prescription digital therapeutics and their use in the treatment of opioid use disorder and other substance use disorders. McCann also shares information on the launch of the Recovery Access Coalition, which is addressing barriers to accessing digital therapeutics that have been authorized by the FDA. Music...

Kevin Taggart, CM&AP, managing partner of the healthcare M&A firm Mertz Taggart, joined the BHE Podcast to discuss a busy first quarter for merger and acquisition activity for the behavioral healthcare space. Plus, Taggart dives into trends to keep an eye on—banks tightening lending standards, challenges for center-based programs, and the emergence of telehealth—and the factors that could make add...

Healthcare design leader Tammy Felker, AIA, ACHA, RN, LEED AP BD+C, and managing partner Rich Dallam, FAIA, of the architectural firm NBBJ are on this edition of the BHE Podcast to discuss the role behavioral healthcare facility designs play in improving clinical outcomes, creating distinct spaces to better serve distinct patient populations, the stakeholders who should have a voice in the design...

Joseph Garbely, DO, DFASAM, Caron Treatment Centers executive vice president of medical services and chief medical officer, joins the BHE Podcast to discuss coronavirus-related protocols for treatment centers. Topics covered include: What treatment centers should (and, just as important, shouldn’t) be doing, crafting and delivering messaging for family members of patients, legal and ethical obliga...

American Addiction Centers co-founder Michael Cartwright joins the BHE Podcast to discuss passing the torch as AAC’s CEO and the initiatives he’ll be focusing on now that he is exclusively working as chairman of the board. Cartwright also outlines challenges that AAC and the addiction treatment industry overall are currently facing, as well as how Wall Street and the general public’s views on the...

Matt Peterson, Universal Health Services executive vice president and Behavioral Health Division president, joins the BHE Podcast to discuss the series of new behavioral health facilities announced by UHS since he joined the company in September and what UHS looks for in an ideal partner when evaluating potential new ventures. Peterson also discusses how his experiences working in the finance indu...

Dan Gemp, president and CEO of Dreamscape Marketing, is on the BHE Podcast to discuss how marketers in behavioral healthcare need to use data and hindsight in their strategic planning to address some seismic changes that have been occurring as big, new players enter the industry. Gemp breaks down a variety of tactics for behavioral healthcare companies to improve their marketing, such as: analyzin...

Chuck Ingoglia, MSW, joins the BHE Podcast to discuss how he has settled into his role as president and CEO of the National Council for Behavioral Health since taking the position on June 1, polling data showing both Republican and Democratic voters favoring increased government support for behavioral healthcare services, and whether behavioral health will be a hot-button issue during the 2020 ele...

Krista Gilbert, PhD, LMFT, joins the BHE Podcast to discuss transitioning from her early career aspirations of being, in her words, “a therapist for life” to her current role as chief executive officer of Constellation Behavioral Health. Gilbert explains how her clinical training has been one of her biggest strengths as an executive, how leaders’ interactions with clinicians can set an organizatio...

On the debut episode of the BHE Podcast, Jaime Vinck, CEO of Sierra Tucson Group, discusses a busy six months that has included the opening of a new behavioral healthcare building, the launch of a new individual treatment program with wraparound services, and the expansion of Sierra Tucson’s services by assuming management of multiple properties in California. Vinck also discusses her experience t...