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BetterHelp Fined $7.8M by FTC; Lifepoint Behavioral Health, Centra Enter Joint Venture for New Inpatient Hospital · Becker's Healthcare Behavioral Health

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  This is Randy Homan with Becker's Behavioral Health Podcast.
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  Here's your daily industry news brief for March 3rd. First,
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  better help agrees to pay the Federal Trade Commission 7.8 million
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  over allegations. It's shared customer health data with third parties.
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  Better Help is a virtual mental health company owned by Teladoc.
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  The FTC alleges that despite promises from better help,
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  that personal data is kept confidential.
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  It's shared sensitive health information to Facebook, Snapchat,
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  and Pinterest for marketing purposes. Under the settlement,
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  the company is barred from sharing customer health data with third parties for
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  advertising purposes.
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  It also must ensure the third party recipients delete any consumer data received
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  from better health.
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  It's now required to get explicit consent from consumers to share their data for
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  any additional purposes. It also must limit how long it stores personal data,
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  as well as implement a privacy program.
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  The FTC will use the almost 8 million settlement to partially refund
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  affected better health customers. Second,
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  Hopewell Health Centers acquires life and purpose, behavioral health,
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  life, and purpose.
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  Notes an increase in behavioral health needs in the country recently.
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  This merger hopes to improve opportunities to better serve their communities,
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  life and purpose.
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  Staff will continue to provide services at all of their current locations as
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  part of Hopewell. This includes community, psychiatric,
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  supportive treatment services, outpatient counseling services,
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  crisis services, school-based services,
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  early childhood intervention and psychiatry.
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  No client or patients from either organization will be disrupted by the
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  acquisition. All will continue to have the same providers.
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  The acquisition will officially take place April 1st.
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  Third,
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  LifePoint Behavioral Health and Central Health are entering a joint venture to
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  open a new inpatient behavioral health hospital.
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  This Central Behavioral Health hospital will be approximately 75,000 square
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  feet. It will have over 70 beds last year.
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  Central also entered a separate joint venture partnership with LifePoint
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  Rehabilitation.
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  They will build a freestanding 50 bed acute and patient rehabilitation hospital.
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  LifePoint Behavioral Health and LifePoint Rehabilitation are both business units
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  of LifePoint Health.
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  Both the behavioral health and rehab facilities will be in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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  It's on property purchased by Centra in 2017.
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  It will form a new specialty care.
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  Medical campus construction for the Behavioral Health Hospital will begin
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  next summer. It will open in 2025.
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