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A new AHA Executive Summary, 鈥淩egional Networks: Improving Access to Behavioral Health Services,鈥 provides insights for communities that want to improve access to behavioral health services through community partnerships. The report assesses key elements for building and maintaining a successful鈥
Telehealth Access for America is running digital ads this week in Politico asking Congress to protect access to telehealth services.
At last week鈥檚 J.P. Morgan Health Care Conference, the investment banking giant鈥檚 health care arm Morgan Health made some of the biggest news amid developments from health care startups, providers, tech developers, biotech and pharma firms.
Since the onset of the pandemic, we have seen an increase in stress anxiety. depression, substance use and elevated numbers of suicidal ideation.
COVID-19鈥檚 reset of the U.S. economy will reverberate well beyond the pandemic. For health care executives, the critical question is to what extent the business model and nature of competition in care delivery may change.
The number of Medicare visits conducted through telehealth surged 63-fold during the pandemic, from about 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 million in 2020, according to a report released by the Department of Health and Human Services.
On behalf of our nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations; our clinician partners 鈥 including more than 270,000 affiliated physicians, 2 million nurses and other caregivers 鈥 and the 43,000 health care leaders who belong to our professional membership groups鈥
The AHA joined Ascension, Johns Hopkins Medicine and 13 other organizations in launching Telehealth Access for America, a public education campaign to protect access to critical telehealth services.
Congress is back in Washington, D.C. this week with a number of major priorities to tackle before the end of the year. Congress could act as soon as this week on some of these year-end items so it is important that you weigh in now.
AHA鈥檚 Response to Senate Finance Committee鈥檚 Request for Information on Behavioral Health Care In the U.S.