Researchers Take Closer Look at Virtual Mental Health Care Boom

Now that the COVID-19 public health emergency has ended, the health care system — including insurers — are grappling with how to proceed in the “new normal” amid shifted habits and utilization patterns. To that end, two new studies offer insights into the implications of patients’ growing use of telehealth for mental health care services.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive amounts of changes in health care delivery, but then also in terms of how individuals are dealing with the pandemic. There’s been extensive research about how anxiety has increased or [how] other mental health disorders have increased,” observes Jonathan Cantor, Ph.D., a policy researcher at RAND Corp. With that in mind, Cantor and his fellow researchers sought to build on a previous study and measure how both telehealth and in-person mental health utilization and spending has changed from 2019 to 2022.

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Leslie Small

Leslie Small

Leslie has been reporting and editing in various journalism roles for nearly a decade. Most recently, she was the senior editor of FierceHealthPayer, an e-newsletter covering the health insurance industry. A graduate of Penn State University, she previously served in editing roles at newspapers in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Colorado.

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