Characteristics of Mental Health Specialists Who Shifted Their Practice Entirely to Telemedicine

JAMA Health Forum. 2024 Jan 5;5(1):e234982. doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.4982.

Authors

Ruth Hailu¹, Haiden A Huskamp¹, Alisa B Busch^{1

2}, Lori Uscher-Pines³, Pushpa Raja⁴, Ateev Mehrotra^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts.
³ RAND Corporation, Arlington, Virginia.
⁴ Greater Los Angeles VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
⁵ Division of General Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cohort study investigates the number and characteristics of US mental health specialists who had shifted to a fully virtual practice as of 2022.

MeSH terms

Mental Health*
Specialization
Telemedicine*

Grants and funding

R01 MH112829/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States