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If Congress doesn’t act in the next few months and allows the in-person visit requirement to go into effect, seniors will have to find a provider to visit in-person before they can receive audio/visual care.
If Congress doesn’t act in the next few months and allows the in-person visit requirement to go into effect, seniors will have to find a provider to visit in-person before they can receive audio/visual care.
Despite improvement in both clinical and cost outcomes, provider hesitancy/trust and a lack of patient satisfaction and access improvement have impeded VBP and APM adoption. However, the health care industry as a whole is shifting away from fee-for-service payments toward VBP models.
f finalized, the Tri-Departments’ proposed rule will significantly impact patient access to virtual behavioral health providers, particularly through new start-up companies with providers trained to treat eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and SUD.
As the nation continues to grapple with an escalating demand for mental health and substance use disorder care, the conversation surrounding behavioral health has shifted and evolved.
The new rules propose sweeping changes to current operations, suggesting that parity is viewed as a magic bullet that will solve all the challenges of modern-day behavioral health care. However, no matter how far health plans bend to comply with parity, we will still be left with behavioral health care issues.
