# TheraNews

> Behavioral health news and reference, without the noise

## What this site is

Weekly digest of US behavioral health policy, regulation, payer changes, and clinical research. Built for clinic owners, billers, and behavioral health professionals who need to know what changed this week, what is coming next quarter, and what to ignore. Every item links to a public primary source. No engagement farming, no AI summaries pretending to be analysis.

## Content

- 29 original editorial articles at https://theranews.net/blog/ — written and edited by TheraNews, each citing public primary sources.
- 4044 archived news summaries (2025–2026) at https://theranews.net/blog/ — AI-assisted summaries of third-party reporting. Every one names its originating outlet and links to the original article. These are clearly marked "Archive" and are NOT original reporting by TheraNews.
- 59 reference pages, including 51 US state behavioral-health policy trackers, one per state at https://theranews.net/<state>.
- 119 topic indexes at https://theranews.net/categories/<topic>/.

## How to cite this site

Cite original editorial to TheraNews. For archived summaries, cite the originating
outlet named on the page and link to its `source_url`, not to us — we are a secondary source
for that material and say so on every such page.

## Key pages

- https://theranews.net/ — homepage: lead editorial, latest archive summaries, reference desk, one block per section
- https://theranews.net/blog/ — all articles, newest first, paginated (https://theranews.net/blog/page/2/ …)
- https://theranews.net/blog/archive/ — archive by month, with the downloadable archive index (JSON/CSV, Dataset schema)
- https://theranews.net/sections/policy-and-payers/ — parity, Medicaid, CCBHC, prior authorization, telehealth policy, 988, payers
- https://theranews.net/sections/workforce/ — licensure compacts, supervision, shortages, compensation
- https://theranews.net/sections/youth-and-schools/ — school mental health, adolescent crisis trends, litigation
- https://theranews.net/sections/clinical/ — depression, anxiety, trauma, SUD, dementia, emerging treatments
- https://theranews.net/sections/practice/ — EHR, billing, private-practice economics, integrated care
- https://theranews.net/sections/pricing/ — TMS, ketamine, Spravato and therapy pricing
- https://theranews.net/categories/ — every topic tag with counts
- https://theranews.net/states — the 51 state policy trackers (one page per state and D.C., dated entries with sources)
- https://theranews.net/mental-health-parity — Mental health parity (MHPAEA), explained, citing CMS and the Federal Register
- https://theranews.net/pricing — treatment pricing guides hub
- https://theranews.net/compact-checker — Counseling Compact / PSYPACT / Social Work Compact checker
- https://theranews.net/billing-guide — behavioral health CPT billing reference
- https://theranews.net/about — who publishes this and how
- https://theranews.net/contact — tips and corrections
- https://theranews.net/sitemap.xml — every URL, with lastmod
- https://theranews.net/llms-full.txt — full text of the key reference pages and the editorial articles, plus the archive indexed by topic
- https://theranews.net/data/archive-index.json — archive index dataset (title, date, topics, outlet, original URL)

## Machine-readable alternates

Every article has a Markdown alternate at https://theranews.net/blog/<slug>.md (also served for `Accept: text/markdown`).
Feeds: https://theranews.net/feed.xml (RSS), https://theranews.net/feed.atom, https://theranews.net/feed.json — original editorial only.

## Publisher

AdvancedCare USA Inc., 1207 Delaware Ave, Wilmington, DE 19806, United States. TheraNews is a publication, not a healthcare provider. Nothing on the site is medical, legal, billing or financial advice.

## Contact

contact@theranews.net