Behavioral Health Business November 7, 2023
During the pandemic, Medicare patients with serious mental illness who accessed care at practices that mainly used telehealth had 13% more mental health visits than those mainly receiving in-person care.
However, researchers found no changes in these patients’ medication adherence, hospital and emergency department use or mortality, according to a recent study published in JAMA. Researchers say this could be promising for using telehealth with SMI populations.
“Our results suggest that, during a period when practices rapidly adopted telemedicine, patients in practices with a high use of telemedicine had more visits with their clinicians and did not appear to experience some of the adverse outcomes that might be expected if telemedicine visits were a poor substitute for in-person care,” authors...
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