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Telemental health visits soar in Mississippi during the pandemic

from Clarion Ledger

Telemental health visits soar in Mississippi during the pandemic Clarion Ledger Mississippi authorized the use of telehealth for one or more chronic conditions, as defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, including mental health. It also requires health insurance or employee benefit plan to charge the same deductible, copayment, or coinsurance for a health care service provided through telemedicine as it does for in-person consultation. But the main block to Mississippi mental health centers using telehealth regularly before this time was that Medicaid did not reimburse centers for much of the care delivered over telehealth, insisting that the patient be seen in person by a clinician. READ MORE

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