Direct Care
Rounding up our favorite reporting from 2025
Here are the stories we enjoyed writing the most this year.
Mental Health
Tech
Pediatric mental health startups launched during Covid. Here’s where they stand now
Brightline and InStride offered a new kind of care for kids.
Direct Care
Alli Moreno discusses lay counseling and reaching underserved patients
Through the Lay Counselor Academy, Moreno is addressing a provider shortage in behavioral health.
Tech
As AI therapy grows, clinicians try to chart a path forward
Bots have the potential to both help and hurt the mental health crisis, experts say.
Payers
Data shows growing use of new Medicare codes for digital therapeutics
New billing codes drew 184 claims in Q1 2025, data shows.
Hospitals & Facilities
LA hospital, county partner to address unhoused crisis
The program is still in its early stages, with more mental health and substance use treatment and housing support to come.
Pharma
Support for psychedelic treatments means full steam ahead at Compass, despite stock drop
Investors were seemingly not satisfied with psilocybin trial results, but the psychedelic health community disagrees.
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