Drug Topics January 26, 2024
Compared to only 10% of primary and subspecialty visits, 34.5% of mental health visits took place via video in August 2023.
Despite telemedicine visits stabilizing around May 2021 and decreasing after the COVID-19 pandemic peak, mental health video visits continued to increase in the past year, a new study found.1
“This [Veteran Affairs] study provides an updated timeline of the fluctuations in use of in-person care and telemedicine since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic,” wrote investigators. “A new equilibrium has emerged in which telephone-based care has largely returned to prepandemic levels, whereas video based care accounts for 11% to 12% of outpatient care (2300% increase from a prepandemic level of 0.5%).”
During the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many...
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