Association of Characteristics of Psychiatrists With Use of Telemental Health Visits in the Medicare Population

Suyoung Choi; Andrew D Wilcock; Alisa B Busch; Haiden A Huskamp; Lori Uscher-Pines; Zhuo Shi; Ateev Mehrotra

doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.0052

Association of Characteristics of Psychiatrists With Use of Telemental Health Visits in the Medicare Population

JAMA Psychiatry. 2019 Jun 1;76(6):654-657. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.0052.

Authors

Suyoung Choi¹, Andrew D Wilcock², Alisa B Busch^{2

3}, Haiden A Huskamp², Lori Uscher-Pines⁴, Zhuo Shi², Ateev Mehrotra^{2

5}

Affiliations

¹ Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
² Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts.
⁴ RAND Corporation, Arlington, Virginia.
⁵ Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This observational study of Medicare fee-for-service claims data evaluates demographic characteristics of psychiatrists who deliver telemental health visits in the Medicare population.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Humans
Medicare
Psychiatry
Telemedicine*
United States

Grants and funding

R01 MH112829/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States