Goldwater Institute: The Doctor Is Out—States Are Blocking Your Access to Mental Health Care Goldwater Institute released a report, which examined six states that allow out-of-state mental health practitioners to treat patients virtually, but to varying extents. As the report shows, allowing licensed practitioners to easily practice across state lines without requiring an in-state [...]
Psychiatric Services: Impact of State Medical Licensure Exemptions and Telehealth Registries on College Students’ Access to Psychiatric Care This study examined the impact of state medical licensure exemptions and telehealth registries on college students’ access to psychiatric care. Contact was established with 282 (31%) psychiatrists across 10 states. Of the 143 contacted psychiatrists who [...]
JAMA Network Open: Employer-Sponsored Digital Health Platforms for Mental Wellness—A Good Investment Employer-sponsored digital health platforms are among the quickest and easiest pathways to grant a majority of US individuals accessible mental health care. Researchers inquired whether an insistence on cost savings to justify investment in a digital health program for mental wellness may [...]
Health Care Cost Institute: Telehealth Access is Crucial to Mental Health Care for People with Employer-Sponsored Insurance The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), in collaboration with West Health, conducted an analysis on the use of telehealth mental health services among people with employer-sponsored insurance (ESI). We found that telehealth played an outsized role in the delivery [...]
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare: Effect of Telemental Health Adoption on Mental Health Services Utilization in Federally Qualified Health Centers This study assessed the effect of telemental health services (TMHS) on mental health services utilization in FQHCs, comparing centers with and without TMHS and examined differences in TMHS effect between FQHCs that adopted TMHS [...]
Departments of Labor, HHS, Treasury: Report to Congress on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act The Departments of Labor, HHS, and Treasury issued the 2024 Report to Congress on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act enforcement and implementation, which highlighted the ongoing efforts of the Departments to strengthen and enforce [...]
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE): Barriers to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis in Adults Through an environmental scan and key informant interviews with clinical experts and people with lived experience of being diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood, this report explored the process by which ADHD is diagnosed in adults, barriers and facilitators to diagnosis, [...]
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare: Psychotherapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Delivered via Video Telehealth in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Trauma-focused evidence-based psychotherapy (EBP) is the recommended treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, veterans began to initiate general mental health services delivered via video telehealth at high rates. [...]
ASPE: Medicaid Behavioral Health Providers Delivering Most Behavioral Health Services via Telehealth ASPE released a study, which examined the extent to which Medicaid providers who deliver behavioral health services shifted their practices to mostly tele-behavioral health services during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study found that the proportion of providers who delivered more than 80% [...]
Pediatric Emergency Care: Suicide Prevention and Telehealth in Children's Hospital Emergency Departments Emergency department (ED) visits for mental health concerns are rising, and telehealth is increasingly used to provide emergency mental health care. This study aimed to describe suicide prevention practices and tele-mental health care in children's hospital EDs. The study found approximately half [...]