Managed Healthcare Executive January 13, 2022
Cost pressures may increase as the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund runs low, but the reliance on telehealth that the pandemic wrought is likely to continue, especially for mental health services.
In the first half of 2020, the coronavirus forced the healthcare system to transform itself in dramatic ways that continue today. Those changes are likely to remain in place throughout the early part of 2022, if not through the entire year and beyond.
In interviews with Managed Healthcare Executive®, executives and experts predicted that the American healthcare system will continue to add more telehealth to the delivery system, particularly for those needing mental health and substance abuse treatment. At the end of 2021, this form of care delivery was...