ICD10monitor October 10, 2022
Proposed legislation hopes to add 400 Medicare funded psychiatric residency positions.
While President Biden may have declared an end to the Covid pandemic, the effects it had on the healthcare system are most certainly going to linger on a bit longer.
One of the hardest hit areas during the last few years was mental and behavioral health, something we’ve talked about before. While the need for these services increased during the pandemic, actual use is another story: usage of these services has dropped steeply during the first months of quarantine and has been one of the slowest healthcare areas to recover.
The good news, however, is that it’s also an area seeing some of the most significant progress...