News Report | April 7, 2019
About 5% Of Medicare Psychiatrists Provide Telemental Health Services
About 5.4% of Medicare psychiatrists delivered Medicare telemental health visits in 2016. According to an analysis of a 20% sample of Medicare claims, 1,544 of the 28,567 Medicare psychiatrists in the sample billed for telehealth services. Of the 1,544 psychiatrists who delivered telemental health visits, 622 (40.2%) provided 100 or more such visits.
These findings were reported in “Association of Characteristics of Psychiatrists With Use of Telemental Health Visits in the Medicare Population” by Suyoung Choi; Andrew D. Wilcock, Ph.D.; Alisa B. Busch, M.D.; et al. The researchers analyzed a 20% random sample . . .