Medical Xpress July 15, 2024
The strengths of academic psychiatry departments and the fast-growing private telehealth sector are complementary, according to a Perspective article published in Harvard Review of Psychiatry.
Justin A. Chen, MD, MPH, a psychiatrist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, and colleagues reviewed literature on provision of outpatient mental health care in the United States. They concluded that academic psychiatry departments and telehealth companies could mutually benefit from strategic collaboration.
Academic medical centers struggle to meet demand for outpatient psychiatric care
An overwhelming number of mental health referrals, coupled with chronic under-reimbursement and increasing “bad debt,” has driven some hospitals to shrink or eliminate their outpatient psychiatric services the reviewers note. Many institutions also struggle to discharge outpatients who prefer...
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