mHealth Intelligence December 26, 2023
Amid a drop in telehealth use between 2020 and 2022, psychiatrists and other mental health providers continued to use telehealth at above-average rates.
Psychiatrists were the top users of telehealth in 2022, with 83 percent saying they had conducted a video visit the week prior in an American Medical Association (AMA) survey.
The AMA released a Policy Research Perspective last month that analyzes data from the AMA’s Physician Practice Benchmark Surveys 2018-2022 and the 2022 quarterly Medicare Carrier Standard Analytic Files. The benchmark surveys are nationally representative surveys of post-residency physicians who provide at least 20 hours of patient care per week. The 2018, 2020, and 2022 surveys had response rates of 36 percent, 38 percent, and 31 percent, respectively,...