HMP Global March 16, 2023
With this week marking the 3-year anniversary of former President Donald Trump declaring a national emergency regarding COVID-19, a new report provides context on behavioral healthcare’s dramatic shift to telehealth-based offerings.
Use of telehealth for behavioral health services has increased 45 times since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a report published by Trilliant Health, an analytics and market research firm for the healthcare industry. The report also noted that while less than 1% of behavioral health visits were conducted over virtual platforms in 2019, that figure had swelled to 32.8% by the second quarter of 2022.
Trilliant noted that by Q2 2022, behavioral health visit volumes overall increased by 18% from where they were prior to the onset...