News-Medical.Net September 6, 2022
The mental health system is increasingly reliant on psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners (PMHNPs) to meet the psychiatric needs of Medicare patients, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
We were surprised by the degree to which PMHNPs are the de facto mental health prescribers in parts of the country. In the states where PMHNPs have no restrictions on prescribing medications, these providers account for 50% of all mental health prescriber visits in rural areas, which was much greater than we had anticipated.”
Michael Barnett, corresponding author, associate professor of health policy and management at Harvard Chan School
The study will be published in the September 2022 issue...
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