Disparities in Virtual Outpatient Mental Health Care Utilization Among Commercially Insured Children and Adults, 2023-2025.

Dena M Bravata^1,2, James M Hudson², Severin Kibby², Jonathan Cantor³, Christopher Whaley⁴, Nicole M Benson^2,5

¹Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.

²TherapyMatch, Inc. (dba Headway), New York, New York, USA.

³The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA.

⁴Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

⁵McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.

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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Early COVID-19 pandemic-era studies documented rapid adoption of telemental health, but current utilization patterns and disparities, particularly among children and young adults, remain poorly characterized since the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency ended in May 2023. The objective of this work was to characterize current utilization of virtual versus in-person outpatient mental hea…

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