Telehealth visits for mental health continue to rise despite dropping in every other specialty

MedCity News June 23, 2022
Katie Adams

Mental health is bucking the overall trend in telehealth utilization. A new report found that telehealth accounted for 87% of mental health appointments booked last month. That percentage is continuing to climb, despite virtual care visits declining across all other specialties.

The explosive use of virtual care that occurred during the early months of the pandemic has dropped drastically across all specialties but one — mental health. In fact, telehealth utilization among mental health patients is continuing to climb, according to a new report.

For the report, healthcare appointment booking platform Zocdoc, which is used by millions of patients each month, examined the appointments booked on its platform from May 2020 to May 2022. In May 2020, one-third of appointments...

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