by Romaisa Asim | Apr 18, 2021 | COVID-19, Telepsychiatry
Following the unprecedented uptake of telehealth approaches to behavioral health, satisfaction studies of telehealth video conferencing, telephone therapy or phone therapy are now surfacing in the telebehavioral health literature. A study released earlier this month...
by Romaisa Asim | Apr 13, 2021 | COVID-19, Telehealth
This week saw the return of the Federal Communications Commission Round 2 of the COVID-19 Telehealth Program, a $249.95 million federal initiative that builds on last year’s $200 million grant program established as part of the CARES Act in response to the...
by Erick R | Mar 22, 2021 | COVID-19, Hybrid Telehealth
Hybrid counseling refers to the combination of telehealth and in-person healthcare. Increasingly, both aspects of healthcare are being recognized as an indispensable pair of treatment modalities for successful care management. While the country’s healthcare providers...
by Kathy Judy | Mar 13, 2021 | COVID-19, Telemedicine
A silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic has been the permission given to health care providers to render medical services and telemedicine across state lines. Several states as well as the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) temporarily waived...
by Kathy Judy | Mar 13, 2021 | Addictions, COVID-19, Telemedicine
Since the rise of the pandemic and co-occurring spike in opioid overdoses, medication-assisted treatment (MAT), the standard of care for opioid use disorder, has been successfully delivered via telehealth. One large opioid outpatient treatment center, CODAC Behavioral...
by Romaisa Asim | Mar 3, 2021 | COVID-19, HHS, Telemedicine
On Wednesday, March 3, 2021, the Senate Finance Committee voted on the appointment of the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Nominee, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. The Senate panel vote was split 14-14 in a deadlock along party lines, which now...
