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Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology: A Comparison of Telehealth and In-Person Therapy for Youth Anxiety Disorders

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology: A Comparison of Telehealth and In-Person Therapy for Youth Anxiety Disorders This study examined outcomes for youth with anxiety disorders treated via telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and youth treated via in-person therapy prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The study found that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) both [...]

pbrown2025-04-06T18:38:46-04:00July 12th, 2024|

Harvard Review of Psychiatry: Finding Our Lanes: A Roadmap for Collaboration Between Academic Medical Centers and Behavioral Telehealth Companies

Harvard Review of Psychiatry: Finding Our Lanes: A Roadmap for Collaboration Between Academic Medical Centers and Behavioral Telehealth Companies Outpatient mental health care in the United States is delivered by an uncoordinated patchwork of public and private entities that struggle to effectively differentiate the care they provide. The authors review the current landscape of [...]

pbrown2025-04-06T18:42:21-04:00July 11th, 2024|

JAMA Network Open: Telehealth Availability for Mental Health Care During and After the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

JAMA Network Open: Telehealth Availability for Mental Health Care During and After the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency This cohort study of 1001 mental health treatment facilities (MHTFs) found a small decline in MHTFs offering telehealth subsequent to the end of the PHE and found larger declines in availability of audio-only telehealth services and care [...]

pbrown2025-04-06T18:44:26-04:00July 10th, 2024|

JAMA Network Open: Predeductible Coverage and Receipt of Telemental Health Visits

JAMA Network Open: Predeductible Coverage and Receipt of Telemental Health Visits This study found that when patients were required to pay out of pocket for telehealth visits, they had substantially fewer telemental health visits, and a larger fraction stopped seeing their mental health specialists. These findings imply that the expiration of the predeductible telehealth [...]

pbrown2025-04-06T18:48:07-04:00July 9th, 2024|

FAIR Health: Nationally and in Every Region, Mental Health Conditions Remained the Top Telehealth Diagnostic Category

FAIR Health: Nationally and in Every Region, Mental Health Conditions Remained the Top Telehealth Diagnostic Category According to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, medical claim lines associated with telehealth fell from 4.79 percent in February to 4.73 percent in March, a decrease of 1.3 percent. Nationally and in every region, mental health conditions [...]

pbrown2025-03-05T15:52:32-04:00June 17th, 2024|

Annals of Internal Medicine: Use of Telehealth Among Medical Visits in the United States: Results From the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

Annals of Internal Medicine: Use of Telehealth Among Medical Visits in the United States: Results From the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Researchers from the Agency for Healthcare and Quality (AHRQ) found that while only 9.6 percent of health care visits occurred via telehealth, 43.2 percent of those visits were consultations with psychiatrists. In [...]

pbrown2025-03-05T15:22:37-04:00June 4th, 2024|

Data & Society: Therapeutic Labor, Teletherapy, and the Platformization of Mental Health Care

Data & Society: Therapeutic Labor, Teletherapy, and the Platformization of Mental Health Care More people than ever are accessing psychotherapy and counseling remotely in the United States, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. Teletherapy has allowed clients and therapists to connect across physical distance, often to the benefit of those seeking mental health support. This [...]

pbrown2025-03-05T15:43:31-04:00May 8th, 2024|

National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners: Implementing Pediatric Telemental Health Care has Both Advantages and Challenges

National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners: Implementing Pediatric Telemental Health Care has Both Advantages and Challenges Implementing telemental health services in the pediatric primary care setting can help address the growing need for children’s mental health care. However, there are not enough pediatric mental health providers available to address all of the needs of [...]

Alliance for Connected Care2024-09-05T15:29:59-04:00March 20th, 2024|

Health Affairs: Medicare’s Mental Health Problem

Health Affairs: Medicare’s Mental Health Problem There is a growing mental health crisis among older adults: 20–30 percent of older adults older than the age of 65 report symptoms of anxiety or depression, and older adults exhibit the highest rate of suicidal ideation of any age group. However, only a fraction of affected Medicare [...]

Alliance for Connected Care2024-09-05T15:32:05-04:00March 4th, 2024|

Rise in Use of Mental Health Apps Raises New Policy Issues

Kaiser Family Foundation: Rise in Use of Mental Health Apps Raises New Policy Issues During the PHE, many federal and state health care requirements were waived in an attempt to expand access to digital behavioral health services such as mental health apps. This Issue Brief looks at how federal PHE waivers may have expanded [...]

Alliance for Connected Care2023-11-27T16:24:45-04:00June 20th, 2023|

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