mHealth Intelligence October 31, 2023
Medicare patients with serious mental illness had more mental health visits if they received care at a medical practice with high telehealth use, new research shows.
Receiving care from medical practices with higher telehealth use is associated with an increase in mental health visits among Medicare patients with serious mental illness, according to a new study.
Published in JAMA Health Forum, the study assesses changes in mental health service use patterns and care quality during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic among Medicare beneficiaries with serious mental illness.
The multi-cohort study included Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries with schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder receiving care at specialty mental health practices. Patients were divided into a pandemic and a pre-pandemic cohort....
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