Telebehavioral health: an effective alternative to in-person care
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Issue brief (Milbank Memorial Fund)
- Author(s):
- Lazur, Brittany, author Sobolik, Lily, author King, Valerie, author
- Contributor(s):
- Milbank Memorial Fund, issuing body.
- Publication:
- New York, NY : Milbank Memorial Fund, October 2020
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Behavioral Medicine Telemedicine Outcome Assessment, Health Care United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- In recent years, many states have seen an increase in the prevalence of behavioral health diagnoses and challenges in treatment access. At the same time, the health care delivery system has increasingly relied on telehealth. Given the importance of behavioral health care and the desire of state policymakers to improve outcomes, leaders should consider the effectiveness of various behavioral health treatments delivered via synchronous telehealth. While the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted numerous, often temporary, telehealth policy changes across the health care field, some states and health care organizations already had robust telehealth policies in place. As health care leaders and organizations consider extending or making these new telehealth policies permanent, they should consider the lessons learned from existing programs. This brief provides summary findings from a 2019, pre-pandemic review of the evidence of telebehavioral health's effectiveness on key clinical outcomes. It also describes the programmatic structure and relevant telebehavioral health policies of three programs: Texas Medicaid, Massachusetts Medicaid, and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center Rural Telemental Health Program (VA RTMH).
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (11 pages)).
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101775042 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101775042